Relativity in Modern Physics

by Nathalie Deruelle and Jean-Philippe Uzan

This comprehensive textbook on relativity integrates Newtonian physics, special relativity and general relativity into a single book that emphasizes the deep underlying principles common to them all, yet explains how they are applied in different ways in these three contexts.

Newton's ideas about how to represent space and time, his laws of dynamics, and his theory of gravitation established the conceptual foundation from which modern physics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198786395
• ISBN13: 9780198786399
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 3.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.8" x 9.8"