Introductory special relativity
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 1991Description: xi, 263 pages : illustrationsISBN: 9780850668384 ; 0850668387 ; 9780850668391; 0850668395 Subject(s): Special relativity (Physics) | Mathematical physicsDDC classification: 530.11 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes Index
Newtonian mechanics and the principle of relativity; motion of charges in electric and magnetic fields; historical development of the theory of special relativity; special relativity and the the Lorentz transformations; relativistic kinematics and optics; relativistic mechanics and conservation laws; four-vector methods; electromagnetism and special relativity; space travel and the clock paradox. Appendices: The Michelson-Morley experiment; the simultaneity of spatially separated events; the principle of equivalence.
A physics textbook for first-year undergraduates. Among the subjects covered are Newtonian mechanics and the Galilean transformations, Lorentz transformations, the principle of constancy, velocity transformations, relativistic mechanics, relativistic electromagnetism and the clock paradox
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