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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583376703321

Autore

Hassani Sadri

Titolo

Special relativity : a heuristic approach / / Sadri Hassani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Elsevier, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-12-810411-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

530.11

Soggetti

Special relativity (Physics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- List of Symbols, Phrases, and Acronyms -- Note to the Reader -- 1. Qualitative Relativity -- 2. Relativity of Time and Space -- 3. Lorentz Transformation -- 4. Spacetime Geometry -- 5. Spacetime Momentum -- 6. Relativity in Four Dimensions -- 7. Relativistic Photography -- 8. Relativistic Interactions -- 9. Interstellar Travel -- 10. A Painless Introduction to Tensors -- 11. Relativistic Electrodynamics -- 12. Early Universe -- Appendix A. Maxwell's Equations -- Appendix B. Derivation of 4D Lorentz Transformation -- Appendix C. Relativistic Photography Formulas -- Bibliography -- Index.