Special Relativity: A First Encounter: 100 Years Since Einstein

by Domenico J.W. Giulini

Book Overview

Special Relativity provides the foundations of our knowledge of space and time. Without it, our understanding of the world, and its place in the universe, would be unthinkable. This book gives a concise, elementary, yet exceptionally modern, introduction to special relativity. It is a gentle yet serious 'first encounter', in that it conveys a true understanding rather than purely reports the basic facts. Only very elementary mathematical knowledge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198567464
• ISBN13: 9780198567462
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"