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Special Relativity in General Frames: From Particles to Astrophysics

Special Relativity in General Frames: From Particles to Astrophysics

Hardcover

Series: Graduate Texts in Physics

General MathematicsPhysics

ISBN10: 3642372759
ISBN13: 9783642372759
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 2 2013
Pages: 784
Weight: 2.73
Height: 1.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Minkowski Spacetime.- Worldlines and Proper Time.- Observers.- Kinematics 1: Motion with Respect to an Observer.- Kinematics 2: Change of Observer.- Lorentz Group.- Lorentz Group as a Lie Group.- Inertial Observers and Poincaré Group.- Energy and Momentum.- Angular Momentum.- Principle of Least Action.- Accelerated Observers.- Rotating Observers.- Tensors and Alternate Forms.- Fields on Spacetime.- Integration in Spacetime.- Electromagnetic Field.- Maxwell Equations.- Energy-Momentum Tensor.- Energy-Momentum of the Electromagnetic Field.- Relativistic Hydrodynamics.- What about Relativistic Gravitation?.- A Basic Algebra.- B Web Pages.- C Special Relativity Books.

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