Inside relativity /

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

Մատենագիտական մանրամասներ
Հիմնական հեղինակ: Mook, Delo E., 1942-
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Լեզու:անգլերեն
Հրապարակվել է: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1987.
Առցանց հասանելիություն:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv346scw
Բովանդակություն:
  • 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.