Special Relativity

A.P. French (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2017
CRC Press (Verlag)
9781138404199 (ISBN)

Infos

The book opens with a description of the smooth transition from Newtonian to Einsteinian behaviour from electrons as their energy is progressively increased, and this leads directly to the relativistic expressions for mass, momentum and energy of a particle.

Autor

A.P. French

Inhalt

Preface, 1 Departures from newtonian dynamics, 2 Perplexities in the propagation of light, 3 Einstein and the Lorentz-Einstein transformations, 4 Relativity and the measurement of lengths and time intervals, 5 Relativistic kinematics, 6 Relativistic dynamics—collisions and conservation laws 7 More about relativistic dynamics, 8 Relativity and electricity, Epilogue, A short bibliography, Answers to problems, Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.08.2017
• Reihe/Serie: MIT Introductory Physics Series
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 520 g
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
• ISBN-13: 9781138404199 / 9781138404199
• Zustand: Neuware