The Special Theory of Relativity

By V Devanathan

Designed as a text book for undergraduate and postgraduate students, this book discusses the Michelson-Morley experiment, the concept of unified space and time, the Lorentz transformation of physical quantities, length contraction, time dilation, the Minkowski space, the mass-energy relation, the concept of four-vectors, the relativistic mechanics, the laws of transformation between centre of momentum and laboratory systems, the relativistic kinematics, the unification of laws of electricity and magnetism into laws of electromagnetism, the invariance of Maxwell's equations under Lorentz transformation and the Lorentz transformation of electromagnetic quantities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783322071
• ISBN13: 9781783322077
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Alpha Science International, Ltd
• Length: 256 Pages