Inside Relativity / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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