Binding: Paperback
Description: This compact yet informative Guide presents an accessible route through Special Relativity taking a modern axiomatic and geometrical approach. It begins by explaining key concepts and introducing Einstein's postulates. The consequences of the postulates length contraction and time dilation are unravelled qualitatively and then quantitatively. These strands are then tied together using the mathematical framework of the Lorentz transformation before applying these ideas to kinematics and dynamics. This volume demonstrates the essential simplicity of the core ideas of Special Relativity while acknowledging the challenges of developing new intuitions and dealing with the apparent paradoxes that arise. A valuable supplementary resource for intermediate undergraduates as well as independent learners with some technical background the Guide includes numerous exercises with hints and notes provided online. It lays the foundations for further study in General Relativity which is introduced briefly in an appendix.
Title: A Student's Guide To Special Relativity
Author(s): Gray Norman (University Of Glasgow)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781108995634
Pages: 170 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 2/3/2022
Series: Student's Guides
Category: Atmospheric Physics