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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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©1987.
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| 在線閱讀: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv346scw |
書本目錄:
- 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.