Relatively Speaking

by Eric Chaisson

Book Overview

This book is based upon a series of lectures delivered during the past decade to nontechnical audiences at Harvard University. As in the lectures, Eric Chaisson aims here to share the fundamentals of relativity theory, as well as some of its cosmological and black-hole applications, with anyone having an abiding curiosity about the nature of our world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393306755
• ISBN13: 9780393306750
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"