On the status of the geodesic principle in Newtonian and relativistic physics

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2011.09.004zbMath1239.53098arXiv1106.2332OpenAlexW2964135936MaRDI QIDQ426030

James Owen Weatherall

Publication date: 10 June 2012

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2332

zbMATH Keywords

general relativityinertial motiongeodesic principlegeometrized Newtonian gravitation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

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