عنوان

Discovering relativity for yourself

شابک

052129780X

شابک

9780521297806

شماره

b604339

عنوان اصلي

Discovering relativity for yourself

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

with some help from Sam Lilley.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Cambridge University Press

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©1981, 1984.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xi, 425 pages : illustrations

متن يادداشت

Includes index.

متن يادداشت

1. Getting started; 2. Rough and ready Relativity; 3. The dilation of time; 4. Three clocks and a pair of twins; 5. Starting again; 6. Space-time diagrams; 7. Time and distance 'over there'; 8. Co-ordinate systems; 9. Combining speeds; 10. Causality and the speed of light; 11. The nature of spacetime; 12. Interval; 13. Old friends revisited; 14. The scales of the spacetime diagram; 15. The radar point of view; 16. Relations between the radar and time-distance systems; 17. Constant acceleration; 18. Dynamics - mass, momentum, force; 19. The mass-energy relation; 20. The effect of acceleration on time measurement; 21. Time as experienced by a constant acceleration traveler; 22 Time and distance measurements of a constant acceleration observer; 23. The Principle of Equivalence; 24. The metric; 25. Introducing geodesics; 26. How to find ordinary geodesics; 27. Inverse square law gravity; 28. Curved spacetime; 29. The metric around the Sun; 30. Light and gravity; 31. The scandal about Mercury; 32. How Einstein did it; 33. A few conclusions.

موضوع مستند نشده

Relativity (Physics)

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

with some help from Sam Lilley.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Sam Lilley

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y