Overview
- Emphasizes geometric methods to develop the reader’s intuition and ability with Minkowski diagrams
- Provides numerous problems and exercises along with detailed solutions
- Utilizes Bondi’s k-calculus, an innovative approach that makes the key results transparent and meaningful
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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This textbook introduces the special theory of relativity at a level which is accessible to undergraduate students and even high school students with a strong foundation in algebra. The presentation emphasizes clean algebraic and geometrical methods, visualized with plenty of illustrations, resulting in a textbook that is modern and serious yet accessible. Replete with many solved exercises and copious spacetime diagrams, this book will help students develop relativistic intuition when encountering the subject for the first time. The emphasis on geometric methods, combined with the pedagogically appealing k-calculus approach, makes this book ideal for a self-contained course on special relativity or as supplementary reading for modern physics courses. It will also appeal to high schoolers with a strong math background who want to get ahead.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Relativity
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Yury Deshko holds a master’s in theoretical physics (with a focus on general relativity) from Belarus State University and a doctorate in physics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His research at CUNY focused on experimental spectroscopy and diamond photonics. He served as a research associate at City College of New York until joining the semiconductor industry as a photonics engineer. Yury Deshko’s pedagogical passion led him to teaching, for a number of years, the introduction into the special theory of relativity in summer schools of Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Special Relativity
Book Subtitle: For Inquiring Minds
Authors: Yury Deshko
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91142-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91141-6Published: 19 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91142-3Published: 18 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 348
Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 137 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Geometry