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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldberg, Dave, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.