Introduction To Spacetime: A First Course On Relativity

Bertel Laurent (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

204 Seiten

1995
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-02-1929-1 (ISBN)

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This text covering the theory of relativity dispenses with the need to establish the insufficiency of Newtonian mechanics. Assuming the reader is familiar with vector calculus in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space, it takes advantage of the geometrical nature of the relativity theory.

The theory of relativity is tackled directly in this book, dispensing with the need to establish the insufficiency of Newtonian mechanics. This book takes advantage from the start of the geometrical nature of the relativity theory. The reader is assumed to be familiar with vector calculus in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space.

Part 1 Basic applications: clocks and acceleration; vector algebra; vector characteristics; simultaneity and space distance; linear independence; relative velocity and four-velocity; two-dimensional spacetime; plane waves; particle reactions; curved world lines. Part 2 Tensors: definition and examples; algebraic properties; tensor fields; spacetime volumes; currents. Part 3 Electrodynamics: source-free electromagnetism; electromagnetism with sources; solution of the wave equation.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.1995
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
ISBN-10	981-02-1929-6 / 9810219296
ISBN-13	978-981-02-1929-1 / 9789810219291
Zustand	Neuware