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Module: Relativitaetstheorie: 1911-1914: Entwurftheorie

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Slide: Drop Tower

Slide: Are Heavy and Inert Mass Equal?

Slide: Eötvös Balance

Slide: Einstein’s Zurich Notebook

Slide: Einstein and Mathematics

Slide: Outline of a Generalized Theory of Relativity

Slide: Einstein Pays Tribute to Mach

Slide: Einstein-Besso Manuscript

Slide: Max Planck

Slide: Casting Doubt on the General Theory of Relativity

Slide: The Completion of the Relativity Revolution

Slide: Letter from Albert Einstein to Arnold Sommerfeld

Slide: Einstein's Fountain-Pen

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Slide: Albert Einstein: The Field Equations of Gravitation

Slide: Postcard from Albert Einstein to David Hilbert

Slide: David Hilbert (1862-1932)

Slide: David Hilbert: Die Grundlagen der Physik (Erste Mitteilung)

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Slide: Science at the Front Line

Slide: "It is a wonderful story, that it is right."

Slide: Albert Einstein to Hugo Andres Krüss

Slide: Albert Einstein: Ether and the Theory of Relativity

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Eötvös Balance

Replica, 1930

Heavy mass causes gravity; inert mass resists acceleration. The equivalence of both masses is the starting point for the General Theory of Relativity. This equivalence can be verified with the torsion balances developed by Lorand Eötvös around 1900.

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