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040 _aISI Library
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_a530.11
_bSch381
100 1 _aSchroder, Ulrich E.
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aSpecial relativity/
_cUlrich E. Schroder
260 _aSingapore:
_bWorld Scientific Publishing Co.,
_c1990
300 _a228 pages:
_bill.;
_c23 cm.
490 0 _aWorld Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics
_v33
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
520 _aThis book develops special relativity from Einstein’s principle of relativity in a direct, logical way rather than as a collection of formulas. The book covers the Lorentz transformations in detail and works through their kinematical consequences and well-known “paradoxes” (twin paradox, length contraction, time dilation). It then applies the formalism to relativistic mechanics and presents electrodynamics as an example of a relativistic field theory, providing readers with worked examples and problem sets. A concise introduction to the tensor calculus needed for some formulations is included, together with discussion of experimental tests and selected problems for practice. The presentation is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers who want a compact but rigorous treatment of special relativity.
650 0 _aRelativity (Physics)
650 0 _aLorentz Transformations
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_cBK
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_d437358