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| Genre/Form: | Miscellanea Pictorial works |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sander Bais |
| ISBN: | 9780674026117 067402611X |
| OCLC Number: | 85814143 |
| Description: | 120 p. : col. ill. ; 18 x 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Basic principles -- The relativity of simultaneity -- Causality -- Dilations and contractions -- A geometric interlude -- Energy and momentum -- The conservation laws -- Beyond special relativity. |
| Responsibility: | Sander Bais. |
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The elegant illustrations help Bais lead the reader from Einstein's postulates through the ideas of simultaneity, inertial frames, time dilation and relativistic energy and momentum, eschewing the usual admonitions against equations. The author's clever idea of pairing every page of text with a space-time diagram (a graphical tool actually used by relativists) to illustrate the concepts and mathematics suits the geometrical basis of its subject perfectly...It is rare for science books to rate as objects in their own right, but "Very Special Relativity" is a lovely little object. You could easily imagine a web-based version of it, with a bit of animation to serve its pedagogical needs. Still, there is some quality about the hard covers and high resolution that even my 26-inch screen wouldn't be able to capture. No longer is there an excuse for physics textbooks to be expensive, boring, thick or stuffed with equations in order to qualify as good teaching material.--Andrew Jaffe"Nature" ( Read more...
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