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9780199662869

Relativity Made Relatively Easy Volume 1

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199662869

  • ISBN10:

    019966286X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-12-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Relativity Made Relatively Easy presents an extensive study of Special Relativity and a gentle (but exact) introduction to General Relativity for undergraduate students of physics. Assuming almost no prior knowledge, it allows the student to handle all the Relativity needed for a university course, with explanations as simple, thorough, and engaging as possible. The aim is to make manageable what would otherwise be regarded as hard; to make derivations as simple as possible and physical ideas as transparent as possible. Lorentz invariants and four-vectors are introduced early on, but tensor notation is postponed until needed. In addition to the more basic ideas such as Doppler effect and collisions, the text introduces more advanced material such as radiation from accelerating charges, Lagrangian methods, the stress-energy tensor, and introductory General Relativity, including Gaussian curvature, the Schwarzschild solution, gravitational lensing, and black holes. A second volume will extend the treatment of General Relativity somewhat more thoroughly, and also introduce Cosmology, spinors, and some field theory.

Table of Contents


Part I: The Relativistic World
1. Basic ideas
2. The Lorentz transformation
3. Moving light sources
4. Dynamics
5. The conservation of energy-momentum
6. Further kinematics
7. Relativity and electromagnetism
8. Electromagnetic radiation
Part II: An Introduction to General Relativity
9. The Principle of Equivalence
10. Warped spacetime
11. Physics from the metric
Part III: Further Special Relativity
12. Tensors and index notation
13. Rediscovering electromagnetism
14. Lagrangian mechanics
15. Angular momentum
16. Energy density
17. What is spacetime?

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