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Einstein's mirror /
"The young Einstein was haunted by a strange thought: would his image appear in a mirror whilst he and the mirror were moving at the speed of light? His questions were resolved with the creation of the theory of special relativity. Einstein's Mirror is a book on relativity with a differenc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Revolution in time: Einstein's revolution
- Time and clocks
- Experiments with time
- Nature of light: Fields of force
- How light behaves
- Search for the aether
- Is Cleveland, Ohio, the centre of the universe?
- Light and time: Momentous day in May
- Time is relative
- Moving clocks run slow
- Space-time
- Problem twins
- Ultimate speed: Strange behaviour of the velocity of light
- Binary stars and the neutral pion
- Doppler and Einstein
- Faster than light
- E=mc[squared]: Phlogiston and caloric
- Energy and atoms
- Newton meets Einstein
- Equivalence of mass and energy
- Matter and anti-matter: Prologue
- Atoms are reversible
- Radioactivity and the birth of nuclear physics
- Atom and the nucleus: Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr and Manchester
- Relativity, quantum mechanics and electron spin
- Dirac and anti-particles
- Little boy and fat man: relativity in action: Prologue
- Science fact or science fiction?
- Key to the nucleus
- Discovery of nuclear fission
- Tube alloys and the Manhattan engineering district.
- Down on earth: Weight of light
- Falling to earth: Galileo and Eotvos
- Gravity, time and red-shifts
- Warped space: Geometry and gravity
- General relativity
- Mirages in space
- Search for Vulcan
- General relativity and the velocity of light
- Big bang, black holes and unified fields: Expanding universe
- Black holes and all that
- Quasar problem
- Two applications of general relativity
- Search for a unified theory
- Afterword: relativity and science fiction: Beginnings
- 'Golden Age'
- Present
- Future.