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

James J. Callahan

ISBN 10: 0387986413 / ISBN 13: 9780387986418

Editore: Springer New York, Springer US, 1999

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Hermann Minkowski recast special relativity as essentially a new geometric structure for spacetime. This book looks at the ideas of both Einstein and Minkowski, and then introduces the theory of frames, surfaces and intrinsic geometry, developing the main implications of Einstein's general relativity theory. Codice articolo 9780387986418

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Titolo: The Geometry of Spacetime : An Introduction ...

Casa editrice: Springer New York, Springer US

Data di pubblicazione: 1999

Legatura: Buch

Condizione: Neu

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Hermann Minkowski recast special relativity as essentially a new geometric structure for spacetime. This book looks at the ideas of both Einstein and Minkowski, and then introduces the theory of frames, surfaces and intrinsic geometry, developing the main implications of Einstein's general relativity theory.

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.