It's about time : understanding Einstein's relativity /

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In It's About Time, N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mermin, N. David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Special relativity (Physics)
Relativité restreinte (Physique)
SCIENCE > Physics > Relativity.
SCIENCE > Time.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The principle of relativity
  • Combining (small) velocities
  • The speed of light
  • Combining (any) velocities
  • Simultaneous events; synchronized clocks
  • Moving clocks run slowly; moving sticks shrink
  • Looking at a moving clock
  • The interval between events
  • Trains of rockets
  • Space-time geometry
  • E = Mc²
  • A bit about general relativity
  • What makes it happen?

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