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Relativity for Everyone How Space-Time Bends /

This book explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail, without digressions such as information on Einstein's life or the historical background. However, complicated calculations are replaced with figures and thought experiments, the text being formulated in such a way that t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fischer, Kurt (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a Light, matter, and energy -- Light, time, mass, and length -- Light, electricity, and magnetism -- Acceleration and inertia -- Inertia and gravity -- Equivalence principle in action -- How mass creates gravity -- Solving the Einstein equation of gravity -- General Relativity in action -- Epilogue -- Appendices. 
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