Inside Relativity / / Thomas Vargish, Delo E. Mook.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Mook, Delo E.,; Vargish, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; CHAPTER 1: THE SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE: POSING MODELS --; CHAPTER 2: THE CLASSICAL BACKGROUND --; CHAPTER 3: THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY --; CHAPTER 4: SOME CONSEQUENCES OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY --; CHAPTER 5: THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY --; CHAPTER 6: COSMOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF GENERAL RELATIVITY --; CODA --; APPENDIX A: THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS AND MINKOWSKI DIAGRAMS --; APPENDIX B: EXPLANATION OF RULES I AND II FOR SOLVING THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS IN MINKOWSKI DIAGRAMS --; APPENDIX C: THE TROUBLE WITH TACHYONS --; APPENDIX D: MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES, AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY --; Glossary of Technical Terms --; Suggestions for Further Reading --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691187419; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691187419?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas Vargish, Delo E. Mook.

Here a physicist and a professor of literature guide general readers through the ideas that revolutionized our conception of the physical universe.