A Student's Guide to Special Relativity
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 3 February 2022
- ISBN 9781108834094
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages230 pages
- Size 235x157x15 mm
- Weight 470 g
- Language English 226
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Short description:
A compact yet informative exploration of Special Relativity and its core ideas, also providing a preparatory route into General Relativity.
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This compact yet informative Guide presents an accessible route through Special Relativity, taking a modern axiomatic and geometrical approach. It begins by explaining key concepts and introducing Einstein's postulates. The consequences of the postulates - length contraction and time dilation - are unravelled qualitatively and then quantitatively. These strands are then tied together using the mathematical framework of the Lorentz transformation, before applying these ideas to kinematics and dynamics. This volume demonstrates the essential simplicity of the core ideas of Special Relativity, while acknowledging the challenges of developing new intuitions and dealing with the apparent paradoxes that arise. A valuable supplementary resource for intermediate undergraduates, as well as independent learners with some technical background, the Guide includes numerous exercises with hints and notes provided online. It lays the foundations for further study in General Relativity, which is introduced briefly in an appendix.
'... this is a well-written, thorough account of Special Relativity (SR) with an introduction to General Relativity (GR) ... Gray has taught courses on relativity for a couple of decades, and it shows. I think that this book is a very good description of SR ... It succeeds in its goal of being both comprehensive and accessible ... I recommend the book to all interested in Special Relativity. Those new to it can learn it thoroughly from the ground up without being overloaded with maths. Those familiar with it might gain new insights and/or ideas for teaching the topic.' Philip Helbig, The Observatory
Table of Contents:
Preface. Table of Aims. 1. Introduction; 2. The axioms; 3. Length contraction and time dilation; 4. Spacetime and geometry; 5. The Lorentz transformation; 6. Vectors and kinematics; 7. Dynamics; A. An overview of general relativity; B. Relativity's contact with experimental fact; C. Maths revision; D. How to do calculations - a recipe. Bibliography. Index.
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