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Special Relativity: An Introduction with 200 Problems and Solutions

By Michael Tsamparlis (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2010
ISBN
3642038360, 9783642038365
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-03837-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4320883 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
595\607
Time added
2011-01-26 19:25:26
Classical and Quantum GravitationRelativity Theory;Differential Geometry

Description

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 following the same steps with the development of Newtonian Physics in Euclidian space. A second characteristic of the book is that it discusses the mathematics of the theory independently of the physical principles, so that the reader will appreciate its role in the development of the physical theory. The book is intended to be used both as a text-book for a teaching course in Special Relativity but also as a reference book for the future. In that respect it is linked to an online repository with more than 500 problems, carefully classified according to subject area and solved in detail, providing an independent problem book on Special Relativity.

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