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The Wonderful World of Relativity : A Precise Guide for the General Reader.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2012Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191004858
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Wonderful World of RelativityDDC classification:
  • 530.11
LOC classification:
  • QC173.57 .S743 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A preview: the Laws of Motion -- 2.1 Relative and absolute -- 2.2 The laws of motion -- Part 1 Introducing space and time -- 3. Something odd is happening all around us -- 3.1 A shower of muons -- 3.2 The light from the stars -- 3.3 The Maxwell equations -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4. Spacetime -- 4.1 Time -- 4.2 Spacetime diagrams -- 4.3 Tick tock -- 5. Reference frames and coordinates -- 5.1 Informal introduction -- 5.2 Frames of reference -- 5.3 Coordinates on spacetime diagrams -- 5.4 Sonar and the Doppler effect for sound -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Part 2 Special Relativity -- 6. The basic principles of Special Relativity -- 6.1 The Postulates of Relativity -- 6.2 Simultaneity -- 6.3 Time dilation -- 6.4 Space contraction -- 6.5 Conclusion so far -- 7. Foundations re-explored -- 7.1 Golden nugget 1: time dilation -- 7.2 Golden nugget 2: relativistic Doppler effect -- 7.3 Golden nugget 3: addition of velocities -- 8. Navigating in spacetime -- 8.1 The pole and barn paradox -- 8.2 The bug and the rivet -- 8.3 Calibrating spacetime diagrams -- 8.4 The twin paradox -- 8.5 Voyaging in spacetime: inertial motion and proper time -- 8.6 The glider and the hole -- 8.7 The birthday party -- 9. Faster than light -- 9.1 Faster than light list -- 9.2 Light speed is information speed -- 9.3 Equivalence of two versions of light speed Postulate -- 10. Introduction to momentum and energy -- 10.1 Einstein's box -- 10.2 Momentum -- 10.3 Energy -- 10.4 The photon rocket -- 11. Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: This book provides a lively and visual introduction to Einstein's theory of relativity. It brings to life the excitement of this fascinating subject, for an audience including young people at school (post-16) and the general public with an interest in modern physics.
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Cover -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A preview: the Laws of Motion -- 2.1 Relative and absolute -- 2.2 The laws of motion -- Part 1 Introducing space and time -- 3. Something odd is happening all around us -- 3.1 A shower of muons -- 3.2 The light from the stars -- 3.3 The Maxwell equations -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4. Spacetime -- 4.1 Time -- 4.2 Spacetime diagrams -- 4.3 Tick tock -- 5. Reference frames and coordinates -- 5.1 Informal introduction -- 5.2 Frames of reference -- 5.3 Coordinates on spacetime diagrams -- 5.4 Sonar and the Doppler effect for sound -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Part 2 Special Relativity -- 6. The basic principles of Special Relativity -- 6.1 The Postulates of Relativity -- 6.2 Simultaneity -- 6.3 Time dilation -- 6.4 Space contraction -- 6.5 Conclusion so far -- 7. Foundations re-explored -- 7.1 Golden nugget 1: time dilation -- 7.2 Golden nugget 2: relativistic Doppler effect -- 7.3 Golden nugget 3: addition of velocities -- 8. Navigating in spacetime -- 8.1 The pole and barn paradox -- 8.2 The bug and the rivet -- 8.3 Calibrating spacetime diagrams -- 8.4 The twin paradox -- 8.5 Voyaging in spacetime: inertial motion and proper time -- 8.6 The glider and the hole -- 8.7 The birthday party -- 9. Faster than light -- 9.1 Faster than light list -- 9.2 Light speed is information speed -- 9.3 Equivalence of two versions of light speed Postulate -- 10. Introduction to momentum and energy -- 10.1 Einstein's box -- 10.2 Momentum -- 10.3 Energy -- 10.4 The photon rocket -- 11. Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This book provides a lively and visual introduction to Einstein's theory of relativity. It brings to life the excitement of this fascinating subject, for an audience including young people at school (post-16) and the general public with an interest in modern physics.

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