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Zusatztext The book has truly the potential to become a pivotal part of scholarship in physics. This lucid and thoughtful approach to taking the reader pedagogically through how Einsteinian relativity works, and how it supersedes the Newtonian construction with respect to explaining the basic principles of physical law, is comprehensive, thorough, innovative, challenging, and in many cases original. Steane's approach fills a gap in what in many university undergraduate courses has become a topic considered rather too briefly and in a rather too stereotyped manner, and which thereby has always denied physics graduates of the deeper insight into how Lorentz invariance is at the root of almost everything. Informationen zum Autor Andrew M. Steane was born in Bath, England (1965) and educated at Christ's Hospital school and Oxford University. He has been Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford since 2002 and has been a Visiting Professor at various institutes. Steane was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 2000 for his work on quantum error correction. He has given numerous public lectures and school demonstrations in physics, and is the author of "The Wonderful World of Relativity" (OUP, Oxford 2011). Klappentext This book unfolds the subject of Relativity for undergraduate students of physics. It fills a gap between introductory descriptions and texts for researchers. Assuming almost no prior knowledge, it allows the student to handle all the Relativity needed for a university course, with explanations as simple, thorough, and engaging as possible. Zusammenfassung This book unfolds the subject of Relativity for undergraduate students of physics. It fills a gap between introductory descriptions and texts for researchers. Assuming almost no prior knowledge, it allows the student to handle all the Relativity needed for a university course, with explanations as simple, thorough, and engaging as possible. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: The Relativistic World 1: Basic ideas 2: The Lorentz transformation 3: Moving light sources 4: Dynamics 5: The conservation of energy-momentum 6: Further kinematics 7: Relativity and electromagnetism 8: Electromagnetic radiation Part II: An Introduction to General Relativity 9: The Principle of Equivalence 10: Warped spacetime 11: Physics from the metric Part III: Further Special Relativity 12: Tensors and index notation 13: Rediscovering electromagnetism 14: Lagrangian mechanics 15: Angular momentum 16: Energy density 17: What is spacetime? ...
