Introduction to Spacetime: A First Cours
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (960 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9810219296 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 197 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Hanno Essen said Fine modern advanced undergraduate special relativity. This material of this book was successfully used in a course of special relativity for advanced undergraduates at the University of Stockholm by the late professor Bertel Laurent, one of Oskar Klein's best students. When he sadly passed away shortly before retirement the manuscript was transformed into a book by his enthusiastic friend Stig Flodmark.The book is unusual in that it does not discuss the historical, philosophical, and experimental background that most book dwell on a lot. Instead special relativity is clearly and simply presented with modern coordinate free (index free) n. John Matlock said A First Course in Relativity. This is a book on the understanding of relativity. Unlike many such books, it does not spend a lot of time and energy on why relativity became an extension of Newton's theories. It presumes that the reader has enough belief that using this limited space to repeat these arguments isn't necessary.This book is based on material that was taught in a course given at the Stockholm University. It is one of the very few books simple enough for the advanced amateur to understand that goes into the concept of tensors. This is the approach used by Einstein in the original development of his theo
The theory of relativity is tackled directly in this book, dispensing with the need to establish the insufficiency of Newtonian mechanics. This book takes advantage from the start of the geometrical nature of the relativity theory. The reader is assumed to be familiar with vector calculus in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space.