Introduction to Special Relativity
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 May 1991
- ISBN 9780198539520
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages180 pages
- Size 235x155x12 mm
- Weight 278 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line illustrations 0
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Short description:
This is a book for undergraduates taking an introductory course on special relativity with a conceptual and mathematical emphasis. It assumes no prior knowledge of relativity.
This updated new edition contains additional examples and problems, and the chapter on relativistic mechanics of continua has been substantially rewritten. Much emphasis has been laid on developing the student's intuition for space-time geometry and four-tensor calculus; but not rejecting three-dimensional methods when they yield a result more directly.
Long description:
This book is intended for undergraduates taking an introductory course on special relativity which is rather more conceptually and mathematically than experimentally orientated. A suitably prepared reader could use it for self-study. It assumes no prior knowledge of relativity. Thus it elaborates the underlying logic, dwells on the subleties and apparent paradoxes, and also contains a large collection of problems which should just about cover all the basic modes of thinking and calculating in special relativity. Much emphasis has been laid on developing the student's intuition for space-time geometry and four-tensor calculus; but the approach is not so dogmatically four-dimensional that three-dimensional methods are rejected our of hand when they yield a result more directly.
This updated new edition contains additional examples and problems, and the chapter on relativistic mechanics of continua has been substantially rewritten.
From reviews of the first edition:
'This will be a really useful book for students for years, perhaps decades, to come.' Nature
Table of Contents:
The foundations of special relativity; Relativistic kinematics; Relativistic optics; Spacetime; Relativistic particle mechanics; Relativity and electromagnetism; Relativistic mechanics of continua; Appendices; Index.
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