Introducing Special Relativity
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Introducing Special Relativity

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Introducing Special Relativity

About this book

Introducing Special Relativity provides an easy and rewarding way into special relativity for first and second year university students studying physics. The author establishes the fundamentals of relativity at the outset of this book so readers fully understand the principles and know how to them before moving on to subjects, like time dilation, that often are a source of difficulty for students. The primary topics addressed include conserved relativistic energy and momentum, applications of the Lorentz transformation, and developments in 20th-century physics. This volume also reviews some of the early experiments in the development of special relativity.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9780429837029
Edition
1
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Physics
Index
Physics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Momentum and energy in special relativity
  9. 3 Relativistic kinematics I
  10. 4 Electrodynamics
  11. 5 The foundations of special relativity
  12. 6 Relativistic kinematics II
  13. 7 The Lorentz transformation of time-space coordinates
  14. 8 The formalities of special relativity
  15. 9 Some developments in special relativity
  16. 10 A postponed prelude
  17. Problem answers
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index

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