Newton to Einstein: The Trail of Light: An Excursion to the Wave-Particle Duality and the Special Theory of Relativity

Baierlein, Ralph

ISBN 10: 0521411718 / ISBN 13: 9780521411714

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 1992

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• Titolo: Newton to Einstein: The Trail of Light: An Excursion to the Wave-Particle Duality and the Special Theory of Relativity
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521411718
• ISBN 13: 9780521411714
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

This undergraduate text takes the non-science student from Newton's particles to Einstein's relativity.

Informazioni sull?autore

RALPH BAIERLEIN received his PhD from Princeton University; his thirty seven years of classroom teaching were spent at Harvard and at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. He has published papers in astrophysics, cosmology and relativity theory. For eight years he served as book review editor of the American Journal of Physics, and has written many papers related to the teaching of physics. In 1996 he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.