A relatively painless guide to special relativity /
Special relativity challenges one's physical intuition of space, time, matter and energy in a way that few other topics in physics do. Yet the subject is often treated as an extra in undergraduate courses, something to be picked up in a few random lectures and presented as a combination of geom...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2023].
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Table of Contents:
- Space
- Spacetime
- Lorentz transforms
- Paradoxes
- Momentum and energy
- Fluids
- Electromagnetism
- A brief introduction to general relativity
- Appendix A: Notation and tensor rules
- Appendix B: Answers to selected problems.