Special Relativity: An Introduction with 200 Problems and Solutions / Edition 2

by Michael Tsamparlis

Overview

This book on Special Relativity presents the relativistic collisions in a new geometric way and prepares the student for the next steps into Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity. Much of the material is not contained in standard books on the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030273460
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/26/2019
Series:	Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2019
Pages:	815
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Michale Tsamparlis received his PhD from Imperial College in London and has more than 35 years of teaching experience at Imperial college (UK) and the universities of Witwatersrand (South Africa) and Athens (Greece). His research is focused on General Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology.

Table of Contents

Mathematical Part.- The Structure of the Theories of Physics.- Newtonian Physics.- The Foundation of Special Relativity.- The Physics of the Position Four-Vector.- Relativistic Kinematics.- Four-Acceleration.- Paradoxes.- Mass – Four-Momentum.- Relativistic Reactions.- Four-Force.- Irreducible Decompositions.- The Electromagnetic Field.- Relativistic Angular Momentum.- The Covariant Lorentz Transformation.- Geometric Description of Relativistic Interactions.