Modern Special Relativity: A Student’s Guide with Discussions and Examples Rafelski – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030543525, 3030543528
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- ISBN 10:3030543528
- ISBN 13:9783030543525
- Author: Rafelski
Modern Special Relativity
A Student’s Guide with Discussions and Examples
Table contents:
Part I. Space-Time, Light and the Æther
1. What Is (Special) Relativity?
2. Light and the Æther
3. Material Bodies in SR
Part II. Time Dilation and the Lorentz-Fitzgerald Body Contraction
4. Time Dilation
5. The Lorentz-FitzGerald Body Contraction
Part III. The Lorentz Transformation
6. Relativistic Coordinate Transformation
7. Some Consequences of the Lorentz Coordinate Transformation
Part IV. Measurement of Body Properties
8. Time Measurement and Lorentz Coordinate Transformations
9. Different Methods of Measuring Spatial Separation
10. The Bell Rockets
Part V. Space, Time, and the Doppler Shift
11. The Light Cone
12. Space-Time
13. SR-Doppler Shift
Part VI. Mass, Energy, Momentum
14. Mass and Energy
15. Particle Momentum
16. Generalized Mass-Energy Equivalence
Part VII. Collisions, Particle Production and Decays
17. Preferred Frame of Reference
18. Particle Reactions
Part VIII. SR-Tests and Open Questions
19. Tests of Special Relativity
20. Acceleration
Part IX. Lorentz Force and Particle Motion
21. Acceleration and the Lorentz Force
22. Electrons Riding a Plane Wave
Part X. Space Travel
23. Travel in the Milky Way
24. Relativistic Rocket Equation
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