Special relativity for beginners : a textbook for undergraduates /
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Singapore :
World Scientific,
©2008.
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Table of Contents:
- The Postulates of the Special Theory of Relativity
- Time Dilation
- The Hafele-Keating Experiment
- Length Contraction
- The Unification of Electric and Magnetic Forces
- Lorentz Transformation
- Minkowski Diagrams
- Events
- Simultaneity
- World Lines
- Time Dilation
- Length Contraction
- Past, Future, Causality
- Speed Faster than Light
- Simultaneity
- Kinematics
- Transformation of Velocities
- Aberration of Light
- Transformation of Accelerations
- Accelerated Motion
- The Rocket-Rope Paradox (Bell's Paradox)
- Doppler Effect
- The Twin Paradox and k-Calculus
- Images of Fast Moving Objects
- Rotation and Lorentz Transformation
- Lorentz Transformation in Two and Three Spatial Directions
- The Rod-Through-The-Window Paradox
- Dynamics
- Mass and Momentum
- Motion of a Rocket
- Force
- Energy
- Energy-Momentum Equation and Diagrams
- Lorentz Transformation of Energy and Momentum
- Invariance and Distance in Three-Dimensional Space
- Invariance and Distance in Four-Dimensional Space-Time
- Four-Vectors and Electromagnetism
- Four-Vectors and Scalar Products
- Calculus with the Energy-Momentum Vector
- Completely Inelastic Collision of two Particles
- Production of a Proton-Antiproton Pair
- Absorption of a Photon by an Atom
- Emission of a Photon by an Atom
- Decay of a Particle at Rest into two Particles
- Production of an Electron-Positron Pair from a Photon (Pair Production)
- Dematerialization of an Electron-Positron Pair into two Photons (Pair Annihilation)
- Compton Effect
- Inverse Compton Effect
- Bremsstrahlung
- Four-Velocity and Four-Acceleration
- The Angular Frequency-Wave Number Vector
- The Charge Density-Current Density Vector
- The Power-Force Vector (Minkowski Force)
- Transformation of Electric and Magnetic Fields
- Fields of a Passing Point Charge
- The Shape Invariance of Maxwell's Equations
- Solutions.