Special relativity: a heuristic approach

by Hassani, Sadri

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Full title :Special relativity : a heuristic approach / Sadri Hassani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA.

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Publication Date:2017

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Publisher(s):Elsevier
Place of Publication:Amsterdam, Netherlands
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

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Description:1 ressource en ligne

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ISBN:9780128104248, 0128104244
oclc:on1083938124
LC Classification:QC173.65
Dewey Decimal:530.11

1. Qualitative relativity -- 1.1. It began with Maxwell -- 1.1.1. Einstein and signal velocity -- 1.2. Relativity of simultaneity -- 1.2.1. Simultaneity in a single RF -- 1.2.2. Simultaneity in different RFs -- 1.3. Relativity of length -- 1.4. Problems -- 2. Relativity of time and space -- 2.1. Time dilation -- 2.1.1. Proper time -- 2.2. Length contraction -- 2.3. Relativisticity -- 2.4. The twin paradox -- 2.5. Problems -- 3. Lorentz transformation -- 3.1. "Derivation" of Euclidean distance

3.1.1. Coordinate transformation -- 3.2. Spacetime distance -- 3.3. Lorentz transformation -- 3.4. Examples of the use of LT -- 3.5. Relativistic law of addition of velocities -- 3.6. Problems -- 4. Spacetime geometry -- 4.1. Plane spacetime geometry -- 4.1.1. Events and worldlines -- 4.1.2. Light cone -- 4.2. Rules of spacetime geometry -- 4.2.1. Invariant distance -- 4.2.2. The rules -- 4.3. Examples of spacetime diagrams -- 4.3.1. Simultaneity revisited -- 4.3.2. The train and the tunnel -- 4.3.3. The Doppler effect -- 4.3.4. Time travel? -- 4.4. Lorentz transformation revisited -- 4.4.1. Lorentz transformation and time travel

4.5. Curved worldlines -- 4.5.1. The spacetime triangle inequ…