The Geometry of Spacetime: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity - Brossura

Libro 56 di 163: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics

Callahan, James J. J.

 
9781441931429: The Geometry of Spacetime: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity

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Preliminary Text. DO NOT USE. In 1905, Albert Einstein offered a revolutionary theory--special relativity--to explain some of the most troubling problems about electromagnetism and motion in the physics of the day. Soon afterwards, Hermann Minkowski recast special relativity essentially as a new geometric structure for spacetime. These ideas are the subject of the first part of the book. The second part introduces the theory of frames, surfaces, and intrinsic geometry in order to develop the main implications of Einstein's general relativity.

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Contenuti

1 Relativity Before 1905.- 2 Special Relativity-Kinematics.- 3 Special Relativity-Kinetics.- 4 Arbitrary Frames.- 5 Surfaces and Curvature.- 6 Intrinsic Geometry.- 7 General Relativity.- 8 Consequences.

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9780387986418: The Geometry of Spacetime: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity

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ISBN 10:  0387986413 ISBN 13:  9780387986418
Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag GmbH, 1999
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