The Special Theory of Relativity

by V Devanathan

Designed as a text book for undergraduate and postgraduate students, this book discusses the Michelson-Morley experiment, the concept of unified space and time, the Lorentz transformation of physical quantities, length contraction, time dilation, the Minkowski space, the mass-energy relation, the concept of four-vectors, the relativistic mechanics, the laws of transformation between centre of momentum and laboratory systems, the relativistic kinematics,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783322071
• ISBN13: 9781783322077
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Alpha Science International, Ltd
• Length: 256 Pages