03960cam a22004334a 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700800410003401000170007501500190009201600180011102000250012902000220015402000250017602000220020103500240022304001220024704200080036905000240037708200170040110000210041824500580043924600240049724600150052126000680053630000370060450400620064150512430070350505040194650505250245052001350297565000250311065000430313590600450317894200120322395501370323599900190337295201350339117315301BD-DhUL20161211144105.0120523s2010    enka     b    001 0 eng c  a  2012419328  aGBB0673092bnb7 a0155663932Uk  a9780521763943 (hbk.)  a0521763940 (hbk.)  a9780521141000 (pbk.)  a0521141001 (pbk.)  a(OCoLC)ocn601110314  aUKMcUKMdBTCTAdYDXCPdERASAdCDXdNUIdIOGdLMLdYHMdIQUdUKMGBdMNYdMIXdZCUdCRHdHEBISdBDXdCWSdCWSdBD-DhUL  apcc00aQC173.55b.T35 2010  a574.192bDAQ1 aTakeuchi, Tatsu.13aAn illustrated guide to relativity /cTatsu Takeuchi.30aGuide to relativity30aRelativity  aCambridge, UK ;aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2010.  ax, 256 p. :bcol. ill. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [254]) and index.0 aPt. 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 --0 aPt. 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 --0 aPt. 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.  aPresents a step-by-step explanation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity through a series of diagrams rather than equations. 0aRelativity (Physics) 0aRelativity (Physics)vPictorial works.  a7bcbccpccadapd2encipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBK  bxh99 2012-05-23 z-processoraxh99 2012-05-23 to STM npa (3 c.)axh00 2012-05-23 to USPL/STM 3 copiesixh61 2012-06-21 to BCCD c. 1-2  c133765d133765  00102ddc406574_192000000000000_DAQ708NFIC9251483aDULbDULcGENd2016-12-11o574.192 DAQp401482r2016-12-11w2016-12-11yBK