Relativity in Rotating Frames: Relativistic Physics in Rotating Reference Frames (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781402018053)

Even if the subject is a long-standing one, this is the first monograph on this field. On the one hand, this book is intended to give a rather wide review on this field, both in a historical and pedagogical perspective; on the other hand, it aims at critically re-examining and discussing the most controversial issues. For instance, according to some authors the celebrated Sagnac effect is a disproval of the theory of relativity applied to rotating frames; according to others, it is an astonishing experimental evidence of the relativistic theory. In order to give the reader a deeper insight into this research field, the contributing authors discuss their opinions on the main subjects in an enthralling virtual round table: in this way, the reader can get a direct comparison of the various viewpoints on the most controversial and interesting topics. This is particularly expedient, since the differences in the various approaches are often based upon subtleties that can be understood only by a direct comparison of the underlying hypotheses.

Author: G. Rizzi
ISBN-10: 1402018053
ISBN-13: 9781402018053
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2003
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.93lbs
Size: 9.88h x 6.22w x 0.77d