It's About Time : : Understanding Einstein's Relativity / / N. David Mermin.
In It's About Time, N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 13 halftones. 43 line illus. 1 table. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Why Another Relativity Book
- Note to Readers
- One. The Principle of Relativity
- Two. Combining (Small) Velocities
- Three. The Speed of Light
- Four. Combining (Any) Velocities
- Five. Simultaneous Events; Synchronized Clocks
- Six. Moving Clocks Run Slowly; Moving Sticks Shrink
- Seven. Looking At a Moving Clock
- Eight. The Interval between Events
- Nine. Trains of Rockets
- Ten. Space-Time Geometry
- Eleven. E = Mc2
- Twelve. A Bit about General Relativity
- Thirteen. What Makes It Happen?
- INDEX