Relativity for Everyone [E-Book] : How Space-Time Bends / by Kurt Fischer.
This book explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail, without digressions such as information on Einstein's life or the historical background. However, complicated calculations are replaced with figures and thought experiments, the text being formulated in such a way that t...
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| Personal Name(s): | Fischer, Kurt, author |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2013. |
| Imprint: |
Cham :
Springer,
2013
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| Physical Description: |
XIII, 129 pages 114 illustrations, 2 illustrations in color (online resource) |
| Note: |
englisch |
| ISBN: |
9783319005874 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-00587-4 |
| Subject (LOC): |
- Light, matter, and energy
- Light, time, mass, and length
- Light, electricity, and magnetism
- Acceleration and inertia
- Inertia and gravity
- Equivalence principle in action
- How mass creates gravity
- Solving the Einstein equation of gravity
- General Relativity in action
- Epilogue
- Appendices.