Special RelativityCourier Corporation, 1 ene 1988 - 203 páginas The first completely geometric approach to relativity theory, based on the space-time geometries of Loedel and Brehme. Topics include time, space, Lorentz transformation, electricity and magnetism, form invariance, experimental evidence, much more. Accessible to undergraduates. Problems. Reprint of 1968 edition. |
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WHAT IS RELATIVITY? | 1 |
SPACETIME DIAGRAMS | 12 |
TIME | 28 |
The LorentzFitzgerald Contraction | 50 |
Is the Contraction Real? | 55 |
The Shape of Moving Objects | 61 |
Bibliography | 65 |
THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION 1 Derivation 2 | 67 |
Kinetic Energy | 96 |
Force and Acceleration | 100 |
Bibliography 50 | 104 |
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM | 106 |
Charge and Current | 107 |
Parallel Beams | 108 |
16 | 150 |
EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE | 157 |
ConstantInterval Surfaces | 69 |
GivenEvent Surfaces | 72 |
Velocity Transformation | 77 |
Light in Moving Media | 79 |
Aberration | 80 |
Rotation Symmetry | 81 |
Bibliography | 83 |
E mc2 1 Mass and Momentum | 84 |
Mass and Energy | 87 |
12 | 88 |
Momentum and Energy | 92 |
18 | 161 |
24 | 171 |
PROBLEMS | 175 |
37 | 177 |
APPENDIX I | 185 |
APPENDIX 2 | 191 |
Parallel Conductors 4 | 197 |
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