Modern Special Relativity : A Student's Guide with Discussions and Examples /

This book presents Special Relativity in a language accessible to students while avoiding the burdens of geometry, tensor calculus, space-time symmetries, and the introduction of four vectors. The search for clarity in the fundamental questions about Relativity, the discussion of historical developm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rafelski, Johann (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Subjects:	Special relativity (Physics). Gravitation. Mechanics. Electrodynamics. Astronomy. Solar system. Special Relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity. Classical Mechanics. Classical Electrodynamics. Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences. Space Physics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

What is (Special) Relativity?
Light and the aether
Material Bodies in SR
Time Dilation
The Lorentz-FitzGerald Body Contraction
Relativistic Coordinate Transformation
Some Consequences of Lorentz Transformation
Time Measurement and Lorentz Transformation
Different Methods of Measuring Spatial Separation
The Bell Rockets
The Light-Cone
Space-time
SR-Doppler Shift
Mass and Energy
Particle Momentum
Generalized Mass-Energy Equivalence
Preferred Frame of Reference
Particle Reactions
Tests of Special Relativity
Acceleration
Acceleration and Lorentz Force
Electrons Riding a Plane Wave
Travel in the Milky Way
Relativistic Rocket Equation.