Introduction to Special Relativity (Oxford Science Publications) - Softcover

Rindler, Wolfgang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198539525 ISBN 13: 9780198539520

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 1991

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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 of thinking and calculating in special relativity. Much emphasis has been laid on developing the student's intuition for space-time geometry and four-tensor calculus; but the approach is not so dogmatically four-dimensional that three-dimensional methods are rejected our of hand when they yield a result more directly.

This updated new edition contains additional examples and problems, and the chapter on relativistic mechanics of continua has been substantially rewritten.

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Wolfgang Rindler is at University of Texas at Dallas.

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This book elaborates the underlying logic, dwells on the subtleties and apparent paradoxes, and also contains a large collection of problems which should just about cover all the basic modes of thinking and calculating in special relativity.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198539525
• ISBN 13: 9780198539520
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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