Introduction to Special Relativity
$118.31
- Paperback
180 pages
- Release Date
16 May 1991
Summary
This book is intended for undergraduates taking an introductory course on special relativity which is rather more conceptually and mathematically than experimentally orientated. A suitably prepared reader could use it for self-study. It assumes no prior knowledge of relativity. Thus it elaborates the underlying logic, dwells on the subleties and apparent paradoxes, and also contains a large collection of problems which should just about cover all the basic modes ofthinking and calculating in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198539520 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198539525 |
| Series: | Oxford Science Publications |
| Author: | Wolfgang Rindler |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 180 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 16 May 1991 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm x 12mm |
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From reviews of the first edition:‘This will be a really useful book for students for years, perhaps decades, to come.’ Nature’…Rindler’s book should be a convenient and valuable (and affordable) addition to the advanced physics students’s shelves’ American Journal of Physics’The author’s pedagogic skills are apparent in his ability to underline and clearly explain the conceptual intricacies embodied in Einstein’s postulates… giving lucid and illuminating accounts of the conventional basic topics’ Physics Education’The text of the first edition is refined and improved. Major changes concern the derivation of the Lorentz transformation and the development of continuum mechanics.‘B. Wegner, Mathematics Abstracts, 781⁄94
About The Author
Wolfgang Rindler
Professor Wolfgang RindlerDepartment of PhysicsThe University of Texas at DallasRichardson, TX 75083-0688USA
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