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Introduction To Spacetimeby B Laurent
World Scientific 1995; US$ 41.60The theory of relativity is tackled directly in this book, dispensing with the need to establish the insufficiency of Newtonian mechanics. This book takes advantage from the start of the geometrical nature of the relativity theory. The reader is assumed to be familiar with vector calculus in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space. Contents: Principles. Basic Applications: Clocks and Acceleration; Vector Algebra; Vector Characteristics; Simultaneity and Space Distance; Linear Independence; Relative Velocity and Four-Velocity; Two-Dimensional Spacetime; Plane Waves; Particle Reactions; Curved World Lines; Tensors: Definition and Examples; Algebraic Properties; Tensor Fields; Spacetime Volumes; Currents; Electrodynamics: Sourcefree Electromagnetism;... more...
Astrophysicsby Judith Ann Irwin
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2007; US$ 210.00Astrophysics: Decoding the Cosmos is an accessible introduction to the key principles and theories underlying astrophysics. This text takes a close look at the radiation and particles that we receive from astronomical objects, providing a thorough understanding of what this tells us, drawing the information together using examples to illustrate the process of astrophysics. Chapters dedicated to objects showing complex processes are written in an accessible manner and pull relevant background information together to put the subject firmly into context. The intention of the author is that the book will be a ‘tool chest’ for undergraduate astronomers wanting to know the how of astrophysics. Students will gain a thorough grasp... more...
ABC of Relativityby Bertrand Russell
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 19.95As relevant today as it was on first publication, the ABC of Relativity is a masterwork of scientific popularisation and an accessible introduction to Einsteins theory of relativity. more...
It's About Timeby N. David Mermin
Princeton University Press 2005; US$ 19.95In It's About Time , N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that the real nature of time discovered by Einstein can be rigorously explained without advanced mathematics. This readable exposition of the nature of time as addressed in Einstein's theory of relativity is accessible to anyone who remembers a little high school algebra and elementary plane geometry. The book evolved as Mermin taught the subject to diverse groups of undergraduates at Cornell University, none of them science majors, over three and a half decades.... more...
Cracking the Einstein Codeby Fulvio Melia; Roy Kerr
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 18.00Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time. But for more than four decades after its publication, the theory remained largely a curiosity for scientists; however accurate it seemed, Einstein’s mathematical code—represented by six interlocking equations—was one of the most difficult to crack in all of science. That is, until a twenty-nine-year-old Cambridge graduate solved the great riddle in 1963. Roy Kerr’s solution emerged coincidentally with the discovery of black holes that same year and provided fertile testing ground—at long last—for general relativity. Today, scientists routinely cite the Kerr solution, but... more...
Classical Measurements in Curved Space-Timesby Fernando de Felice; Donato Bini
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 110.00Ideal for readers with a mathematical background, this book explores the informative power of the theory of relativity. more...
In Search of the Multiverseby John Gribbin
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010; US$ 24.95Critical acclaim for John Gribbin "The master of popular science." — Sunday Times (London) "Gribbin explains things very well indeed, and there's not an equation in sight." — David Goodstein, The New York Times Book Review (on Almost Everyone's Guide to Science) "Gribbin breathes life into the core ideas of complexity science, and argues convincingly that the basic laws, even in biology, will ultimately turn out to be simple." — Nature magazine (on Deep Simplicity) "Gribbin takes us through the basics [of chaos theory] with his customary talent for accessibility and clarity. [His] arguments are driven not by impersonal equations but by a sense of wonder at the presence in the universe and in nature of simple,... more...
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