Illustrated guide to relativity / (Record no. 106669)
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| Record control number | 015566393 |
| Source | Uk |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780521141000 (pbk.) |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)ocn601110314 |
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| Authentication code | pcc |
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| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 530.11 TAK |
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| Personal name | Takeuchi, Tatsu. |
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| Title | Illustrated guide to relativity / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Tatsu Takeuchi. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge, UK ; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x, 256 p. : |
| Other physical details | col. ill. ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | GBP 21.99/- |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Pt. I. Kinematics: relativity without any equations -- 1. Welcome to the world of relativity -- 2. Basics -- Questions about motion -- Frames of reference -- Relativity of motion -- The Law of Inertia -- Inertial and non-inertial frames -- What's so "special" about Special Relativity? -- 3. Galilean relativity -- Basic questions -- Spacetime diagrams -- The Galilei transformation -- Addition of velocities -- Acceleration and Newton's Second Law -- 4. Einsteinian relativity -- The mystery of the speed of light -- Modification to the spacetime diagram -- The problem -- The solution -- Einstein's argument -- The solution, continued -- Conservation of spacetime volume -- The Lorentz transformation -- The low velocity limit of the Lorentz transformation -- Addition of velocities -- Dependence of inertia on speed -- 5. Causality -- Before and after -- Paradox? -- Instantaneous communication? -- Impossibility of faster than light travel -- The light-cone -- 6. Consequences -- Synchronization of clocks -- Time dilation -- What time dilation DOES NOT mean -- Lorentz contraction -- What Lorentz contraction DOES NOT mean -- Twin paradox -- Doppler effect -- Red shift -- Blue shift -- Red shift and the expansion of the universe -- |
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| Formatted contents note | Pt. II. Problems -- 8. Qualitative problems -- Reading the spacetime diagram -- Street lamps -- Supernovae -- Questions on before and after -- The hare and the tortoise 1, 2, 3 -- The starship and the supernova -- Relativistic sports -- Tagging up in baseball 1, 2 -- The offside rule in soccer -- Lorentz contraction -- Train and tunnel -- The starship and the enemy space cruiser 1, 2 -- The duel of the space cruisers -- Trains in a tunnel -- 9. Quantitative problems -- Addition of velocities -- |
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| Formatted contents note | Pt. III. Dynamics: relativity with a few equations -- 10. The world's most famous equation -- 11. The problem -- 12. Newtonian dynamics -- The mass-momentum vector -- The impulse vector -- Inertial mass -- Newton's Second Law -- Newton's Third Law and the conservation of mass-momentum -- 13. Relativistic dynamics -- The energy-momentum vector -- The energy-momentum vector of a photon -- The work-impulse vector -- Conservation of energy-momentum -- E=mc2 -- Common misconception about E=mc2 -- 14. Summary of Pt. III. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Presents a step-by-step explanation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity through a series of diagrams rather than equations. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Relativity (Physics) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Relativity (Physics) |
| Form subdivision | Pictorial works. |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | SIAS Collection | H.T. Parekh Library | H.T. Parekh Library | 07/10/2020 | 4 | 530.11 TAK | K2627 | 03/06/2024 | 20/05/2024 | 07/10/2020 | Books |