Special Relativity / Edition 1

by A.P. French

Overview

The book opens with a description of the smooth transition from Newtonian to Einsteinian behaviour from electrons as their energy is progressively increased, and this leads directly to the relativistic expressions for mass, momentum and energy of a particle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138404199
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/29/2017
Series:	MIT Introductory Physics Series
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface, 1 Departures from newtonian dynamics, 2 Perplexities in the propagation of light, 3 Einstein and the Lorentz-Einstein transformations, 4 Relativity and the measurement of lengths and time intervals, 5 Relativistic kinematics, 6 Relativistic dynamics—collisions and conservation laws 7 More about relativistic dynamics, 8 Relativity and electricity, Epilogue, A short bibliography, Answers to problems, Index