Title Statements
- Full title :Discovering relativity for yourself / with some help from Sam Lilley.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1981.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge [England]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1981.
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 425 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0521230381, 9780521230384, 052129780X, 9780521297806
- oclc:ocm06331774
- LC Classification:QC173.55
- Dewey Decimal:530.1/1
Table of Contents
Getting started -- Rough and ready relativity -- The dilation of time -- Three clocks and a pair of twins -- Starting again -- Space-time diagrams -- Time and distance 'over there' -- Co-ordinate systems -- Combining speeds -- Causality and the speed of light -- The nature of spacetime -- Interval -- Old friends revisited -- The scales of the spacetime diagram -- The radar point of view -- Relations between the radar and time-distance systems -- Constant acceleration -- Dynamics-mass, momentum, force -- The mass-energy relation -- The effect of acceleration on time measurement -- Time as experienced by a constant acceleration traveller -- Time and distance measurements of a constant acceleration observer -- The Principle of Equivalence -- The metric -- Introducing geodesics -- How to find ordinary geodesics -- Inverse square law gravity -- Curved spacetime -- The metric around the Sun -- Light and gravity -- The scandal about Mercury -- How Einstein did it -- A few conclusions.
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