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Inside Relativity /
Here a physicist and a professor of literature guide general readers through the ideas that revolutionized our conception of the physical universe.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1: THE SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE: POSING MODELS
- CHAPTER 2: THE CLASSICAL BACKGROUND
- CHAPTER 3: THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
- CHAPTER 4: SOME CONSEQUENCES OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- CHAPTER 5: THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
- CHAPTER 6: COSMOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
- CODA
- APPENDIX A: THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS AND MINKOWSKI DIAGRAMS
- APPENDIX B: EXPLANATION OF RULES I AND II FOR SOLVING THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS IN MINKOWSKI DIAGRAMS
- APPENDIX C: THE TROUBLE WITH TACHYONS
- APPENDIX D: MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES, AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index