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By Valerio Faraoni

ISBN-10: 3319011073

ISBN-13: 9783319011073

This booklet deals an important bridge among college-level introductions and complicated graduate-level books on specified relativity. It starts at an hassle-free point, offering and discussing the elemental ideas as a rule lined in college-level works, together with the Lorentz transformation. next chapters introduce the 4-dimensional worldview implied by means of the Lorentz ameliorations, blending time and area coordinates, earlier than carrying on with directly to the formalism of tensors, a subject often shunned in lower-level classes. The book’s moment part addresses a couple of crucial issues, together with the idea that of causality; the equivalence among mass and effort, together with functions; relativistic optics; and measurements and subject in Minkowski spacetime. The last chapters concentrate on the energy-momentum tensor of a continual distribution of mass-energy and its covariant conservation; angular momentum; a dialogue of the scalar box of ideal fluids and the Maxwell box; and common coordinates.

Every bankruptcy is supplemented via a piece with quite a few workouts, permitting readers to perform the idea. those routines represent an important a part of the textbook, and the ideas to nearly half them are supplied within the appendix.

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However, Einstein decided to rethink the fundamental concepts of time and space, which led him to formulating the two postulates instead of focusing on the mathematical structure of the Lorentz transformation and inventing ad hoc explanations. We have appreciated that the two postulates, which express simple ideas, have profound consequences such as the relativity of simultaneity, time dilation, and length contraction. We are now ready to express these concepts in a mathematical form by using the law relating two inertial frames, the Lorentz transformation.

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