Inside Relativity / Thomas Vargish, Delo E. Mook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mook, Delo E., author.

Vargish, Thomas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relativity (Physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Here a physicist and a professor of literature guide general readers through the ideas that revolutionized our conception of the physical universe.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

CHAPTER 1: THE SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE: POSING MODELS

CHAPTER 2: THE CLASSICAL BACKGROUND

CHAPTER 3: THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY

CHAPTER 4: SOME CONSEQUENCES OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY

CHAPTER 5: THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY

CHAPTER 6: COSMOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF GENERAL RELATIVITY

CODA

APPENDIX A: THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS AND MINKOWSKI DIAGRAMS

APPENDIX B: EXPLANATION OF RULES I AND II FOR SOLVING THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS IN MINKOWSKI DIAGRAMS

APPENDIX C: THE TROUBLE WITH TACHYONS

APPENDIX D: MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES, AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY

Glossary of Technical Terms

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691187419

069118741X

OCLC:

1043770903