Electronic Resource

Special relativity

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This book offers an essential bridge between college-level introductions and advanced graduate-level books on special relativity.

It begins at an elementary level, presenting and discussing the basic concepts normally covered in college-level works, including the Lorentz transformation. Subsequent chapters introduce the four-dimensional worldview implied by the Lorentz transformations, mixing time and space coordinates, before continuing on to the formalism of tensors, a topic usually avoided in lower-level courses. The book’s second half addresses a number of essential points, including the concept of causality; the equivalence between mass and energy, including applications; relativistic optics; and measurements and matter in Minkowski space-time. The closing chapters focus on the energy-momentum tensor of a continuous distribution of mass-energy and its co-variant conservation; angular momentum; a discussion of the scalar field of perfect fluids and the Maxwell field;and general coordinates.

Every chapter is supplemented by a section with numerous exercises, allowing readers to practice the theory. These exercises constitute an essential part of the textbook, and the solutions to approximately half of them are provided in the appendix.

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Ketersediaan

Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics

No. Panggil

E1663

Penerbit

Switzerland : Springer Cham., 2013

Deskripsi Fisik

xviii, 304 hlm. : il. warna.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783319011073

Klasifikasi

NONE

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Gravitasi Klasik dan Kuantum
Fisika : Teori Relativitas
Transformasi Lorentz

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Valerio Faraoni

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Lampiran Berkas

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