Inside relativity /

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

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Tác giả chính:	Mook, Delo E., 1942-
Định dạng:	Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:	Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1987.
Truy cập trực tuyến:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv346scw

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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.

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