Special relativity / James Read.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Read, James, 1991- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of physics 2632-413X.

Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of physics, 2632-413X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Special relativity (Physics)--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This Element presents the philosophy of special relativity, from the foundations of the theory in Newtonian mechanics, through its birth out of the ashes of nineteenth-century ether theory, through the various conceptual paradoxes which the theory presents, and finally arriving at some of its connections with Einstein's later theory of general relativity. It illustrates concepts such as inertial frames, force-free motion, dynamical versus geometrical understandings of physics, the standard hierarchy of classical spacetimes, and symmetries of a physical theory; it also discusses specific topics in the foundations of special relativity such as Einstein's 1905 derivation of the Lorentz transformations, the conventionality of simultaneity, the status of frame-dependent effects, and the twin paradox.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 6, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781009300599

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