Special Relativity An Introduction with 200 Problems and Solutions /

This textbook develops Special Relativity in a systematic way assuming no prior knowledge of Relativity; however the student is assumed to be familiar with the basics of the standard vector calculus. The approach is structural in the sense that it develops Special Relativity in Minkowski space follo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tsamparlis, Michael (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edition:1st ed. 2010.
Subjects:
Physics.
Gravitation.
Geometry, Differential.
Classical and Continuum Physics.
Classical and Quantum Gravity.
Differential Geometry.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mathematical Part
  • The Structure of the Theories of Physics
  • Newtonian Physics
  • The Foundation of Special Relativity
  • The Physics of the Position Four-Vector
  • Relativistic Kinematics
  • Four-Acceleration
  • Paradoxes
  • Mass - Four-Momentum
  • Relativistic Reactions
  • Four-Force
  • Irreducible Decompositions
  • The Electromagnetic Field
  • Relativistic Angular Momentum
  • The Covariant Lorentz Transformation
  • Geometric Description of Relativistic Interactions.

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