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The relativity explosion / Martin Gardner ; illustrated by Anthony Ravielli.
LIBRA - Rare QC173.57 .G37 1976 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relativity (Physics).
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 198 pages, 14 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- A completely revised updated edition of Relativity for the million.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books a division of Random House, [1976]
- Contents:
- Absolute or Relative?
- The Michelson-Morley experiment
- The special theory of relativity, Part I
- The special theory of relativity, Part II
- The general theory of relativity
- Gravity and spacetime
- Tests of general relativity
- Mach's principle
- The twin paradox
- Models of the universe
- Quasars, Pulsars, and Black Holes
- Beginning and End.
- Notes:
- "First Vintage Books Edition September 1976."
- "Originally published as 'Relativity for the Million' by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1962."
- Publisher's advertisements: [11] pages at end.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok".
- ISBN:
- 0394721047
- 9780394721040
- OCLC:
- 2388022
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