Special Relativity

by James Read

This Element presents the philosophy of special relativity, from the foundations of the theory in Newtonian mechanics, through its birth out of the ashes of nineteenth-century ether theory, through the various conceptual paradoxes which the theory presents, and finally arriving at some of its connections with Einstein's later theory of general relativity. It illustrates concepts such as inertial frames, force-free motion, dynamical versus geometrical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 100930061X
• ISBN13: 9781009300612
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"