Research Catalog

Title

Introduction to special relativity / Wolfgang Rindler.

Author

Rindler, Wolfgang, 1924-

Publication

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Details

Description

x, 169 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Special relativity (Physics)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine derived contents note: PART I: The Foundations of Special Relativity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Schematic Account of the Michelson-Morley Experiment -- 3. Inertial frames in Special Relativity -- 4. Einstein's Two Axioms for Special Relativity -- 5. Coordinates. The Relativity of Time -- 6. Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation -- 7. Properties of the Lorentz Transformation -- PART II: Relativistic Kinematics -- 8. Introduction -- 9. Length Contraction -- 10. The Length Contraction Paradox -- 11. Time Dilation -- 12. The Twin Paradox -- 13. Velocity Transformation -- 14. Transformation of Linear Acceleration -- PART III: Relativistic Optics -- 15. Introduction -- 16. The Drag Effect -- 17. The Doppler Effect -- 18. Aberration and the Visual Appearance of Moving Objects -- PART IV: Spacetime -- 19. Introduction -- 20. Spacetime and Four-Tensors -- 21. The Minkowski Map of Spacetime -- 22. Rules for the Manipulation of Four-Tensors -- 23. Four-Velocity and Four-Acceleration -- 24. Wave Motion -- PART V: Relativistic Particle Mechanics -- 25. Introduction -- 26. The Conservation of Four-Momentum -- 27. The Equivalence of Mass and Energy -- 28. Some Four-Momentum Identities -- 29. Relativistic Billiards -- 30. The Center of Momentum Frame -- 31. Threshold Energies -- 32. De Broglie Waves -- 33. Photons -- 34. The Angular Momentum Four-Tensor -- 35. Three-Force and Four-Force -- 36. Relativistic Analytic Mechanics -- PART VI: Relativity and Electromagnetism -- 37. Introduction -- 38. The Formal Structure of Maxwell's Theory -- 39. Transformation of e and b. The dual field. -- 40. Potential and Field of an Arbitrarily Moving Charge -- 41. Field of a Uniformly Moving Charge -- 42. The Electromagnetic Energy Tensor -- 43. Electromagnetic Waves -- PART VII: Relativistic Mechanics of Continua -- 44. Introduction -- 45. Preliminaries. External and Internal Forces -- 46. The Augmented Momentum and Mass Densities -- 47. The Equations of Continuity and of Motion -- 48. The Mechanical Energy Tensor -- 49. Perfect Fluids and Incoherent Fluids -- 50. Integral Conservation Laws.

ISBN

• 0198539533
• 0198539525 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^90048748^

OCLC

• 22490653
• SCSB-10226358

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library