Overview
- Emphasizes geometric methods to develop the reader’s intuition and ability with Minkowski diagrams
- Provides numerous problems and exercises along with detailed solutions
- Utilizes Bondi’s k-calculus, an innovative approach that makes the key results transparent and meaningful
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Relativity
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Yury Deshko holds a master’s in theoretical physics (with a focus on general relativity) from Belarus State University and a doctorate in physics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His research at CUNY focused on experimental spectroscopy and diamond photonics. He served as a research associate at City College of New York until joining the semiconductor industry as a photonics engineer. Yury Deshko’s pedagogical passion led him to teaching, for a number of years, the introduction into the special theory of relativity in summer schools of Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Special Relativity
Book Subtitle: For Inquiring Minds
Authors: Yury Deshko
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91142-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91141-6Published: 19 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91142-3Published: 18 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 348
Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 137 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Geometry