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Special Relativity

Special Relativity

Faraoni, Valerio

Paperback

Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics

General MathematicsPhysicsProbability & Statistics

ISBN10: 3319011065
ISBN13: 9783319011066
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 23 2013
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book offers an essential bridge between college-level introductions and advanced graduate-level books on special relativity.

It begins at an elementary level, presenting and discussing the basic concepts normally covered in college-level works, including the Lorentz transformation. Subsequent chapters introduce the four-dimensional worldview implied by the Lorentz transformations, mixing time and space coordinates, before continuing on to the formalism of tensors, a topic usually avoided in lower-level courses. The book's second half addresses a number of essential points, including the concept of causality; the equivalence between mass and energy, including applications; relativistic optics; and measurements and matter in Minkowski space-time. The closing chapters focus on the energy-momentum tensor of a continuous distribution of mass-energy and its co-variant conservation; angular momentum; a discussion of the scalar field of perfect fluids and the Maxwell field;and general coordinates.

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