03813cam a22004214a 4500 17315301 BD-DhUL 20161211144105.0 120523s2010 enka b 001 0 eng c 2012419328 GBB067309 bnb 015566393 Uk 9780521763943 (hbk.) 0521763940 (hbk.) 9780521141000 (pbk.) 0521141001 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocn601110314 UKM UKM BTCTA YDXCP ERASA CDX NUI IOG LML YHM IQU UKMGB MNY MIX ZCU CRH HEBIS BDX CWS CWS BD-DhUL pcc QC173.55 .T35 2010 574.192 DAQ Takeuchi, Tatsu. An illustrated guide to relativity / Tatsu Takeuchi. Guide to relativity Relativity Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. x, 256 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]) and index. 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 -- 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 -- 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. Presents a step-by-step explanation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity through a series of diagrams rather than equations. Relativity (Physics) Relativity (Physics) Pictorial works. 7 cbc pccadap 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK xh99 2012-05-23 z-processor xh99 2012-05-23 to STM npa (3 c.) xh00 2012-05-23 to USPL/STM 3 copies xh61 2012-06-21 to BCCD c. 1-2 133765 133765 0 0 ddc 0 574_192000000000000_DAQ 0 NFIC 251483 DUL DUL GEN 2016-12-11 574.192 DAQ 401482 2016-12-11 2016-12-11 BK