What is Relativity ?

Explains the fundamental principles of relativity, describing such aspects of the theory as black holes, curvature of spacetime, and singularity, as well as its practical applications in everyday life.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction/Foreword: Einstein's Life
Part 1: Getting Started
1. Voyage to a Black Hole
Part 2: Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity
2. Racing Light
3. Redefining Space and Time
4. A New Common Sense
Part 3: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
5. Newton's Absurdity
6. Redefining Gravity
Part 4: Implications of Relativity
7. Black Holes
8. The Expanding Universe
Epilogue: Your Indelible Mark on the Universe
Acknowledgments
Index

About the author

Jeffrey Bennett

Product details

• Authors: Bennett, Jeffrey Bennett
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2014
• EAN: 9780231167260
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16726-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 237 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); popular science, Science, SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, Physics, Relativity physics, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy