Relativity for the Layman
Author: James R. Coleman
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1960-01-01
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ISBN-13: 9780451602343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James R. Coleman
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1960-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780451602343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James A. Coleman
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Published: 1990-11-01
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780140135961
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-12-19
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0486315614
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the subject's clearest, most entertaining introductions offers lucid explanations of special and general theories of relativity, gravity, and spacetime, models of the universe, and more. 100 illustrations.
Author: Stan Gibilisco
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780486266596
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Clear, concise exposition of both the special and general theories of relativity, intended for nonscientific readers with a knowledge of high school math. Topics include simultaneity, time dilation, length contraction, the possibility of travel to a distant star, non-Euclidean geometries, black holes, and the structure of the universe. 158 illustrations.
Author: Banesh Hoffmann
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780486406763
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Entertaining, nontechnical demonstrations of the meaning of relativity theory trace development from basis in geometrical, cosmological ideas of the ancient Greeks, plus work by Kepler, Galileo, Newton, others. 1983 edition.
Author: Richard P. Feynman
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2011-03-22
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0465025285
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Learn about Einstein's theory of relativity from a physics Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) in six memorable lessons It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961 to 1963, Feynman delivered a series of lectures at the California Institute of Technology that revolutionized the teaching of physics. In Six Not-So-Easy Pieces, taken from these famous Lectures on Physics, Feynman delves into one of the most revolutionary discoveries in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's theory of relativity. The idea that the flow of time is not a constant, that the mass of an object depends on its velocity, and that the speed of light is a constant no matter what the motion of the observer, at first seemed shocking to scientists and laymen alike. But as Feynman shows, these tricky ideas are not merely dry principles of physics, but things of beauty and elegance. No one — not even Einstein himself — explained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Feynman. Filled with wonderful examples and clever illustrations, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by one of the most admired and accessible physicists of all time. “There is no better explanation for the scientifically literate layman.” –Washington Post Book World
Author: Hermann Bondi
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1964-01-01
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0486240215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This radically reoriented and popular presentation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity derives its concepts from Newtonian ideas rather than by opposing them. It demonstrates that time is relative rather than absolute, that high speeds affect the nature of time, and that acceleration affects speed, time, and mass. Very little mathematics is required, and 60 illustrations augment the text.
Author: Roberto Torretti
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2014-05-20
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1483147371
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Relativity and Geometry aims to elucidate the motivation and significance of the changes in physical geometry brought about by Einstein, in both the first and the second phases of relativity. The book contains seven chapters and a mathematical appendix. The first two chapters review a historical background of relativity. Chapter 3 centers on Einstein's first Relativity paper of 1905. Subsequent chapter presents the Minkowskian formulation of special relativity. Chapters 5 and 6 deal with Einstein's search for general relativity from 1907 to 1915, as well as some aspects and subsequent developments of the theory. The last chapter explores the concept of simultaneity, geometric conventionalism, and a few other questions concerning space time structure, causality, and time.