Introduction To Spacetime: A First Course On Relativity
Author:   Bertel Laurent (Stockholm Univ, Sweden) ,  Bertel Laurent (Stockholm Univ, Sweden)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
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9789810219291


Pages:   204
Publication Date:   01 January 1995
Format:   Hardback
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The theory of relativity is tackled directly in this book, dispensing with the need to establish the insufficiency of Newtonian mechanics. This book takes advantage from the start of the geometrical nature of the relativity theory. The reader is assumed to be familiar with vector calculus in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space. The book is based on course material delivered at Stockholm University over a five-year period, and is intended to be of use to undergraduate and postgraduate students in astrophysics and astronomy.

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Author:   Bertel Laurent (Stockholm Univ, Sweden) ,  Bertel Laurent (Stockholm Univ, Sweden)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9789810219291


ISBN 10:   9810219296
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   01 January 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Basic applications: clocks and acceleration; vector algebra; vector characteristics; simultaneity and space distance; linear independence; relative velocity and four-velocity; two-dimensional spacetime; plane waves; particle reactions; curved world lines. Part 2 Tensors: definition and examples; algebraic properties; tensor fields; spacetime volumes; currents. Part 3 Electrodynamics: source-free electromagnetism; electromagnetism with sources; solution of the wave equation.

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