{"product_id":"special-relativity-valerio-faraoni-9783319011066","title":"Special Relativity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers an essential bridge between college-level introductions and advanced graduate-level books on special relativity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt begins at an elementary level, presenting and discussing the basic concepts normally covered in college-level works, including the Lorentz transformation. Subsequent chapters introduce the four-dimensional worldview implied by the Lorentz transformations, mixing time and space coordinates, before continuing on to the formalism of tensors, a topic usually avoided in lower-level courses. The book's second half addresses a number of essential points, including the concept of causality; the equivalence between mass and energy, including applications; relativistic optics; and measurements and matter in Minkowski space-time. The closing chapters focus on the energy-momentum tensor of a continuous distribution of mass-energy and its co-variant conservation; angular momentum; a discussion of the scalar field of perfect fluids and the Maxwell field;and general coordinates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery chapter is supplemented by a section with numerous exercises, allowing readers to practice the theory. These exercises constitute an essential part of the textbook, and the solutions to approximately half of them are provided in the appendix.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Valerio Faraoni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3319011065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783319011066\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.68d","brand":"Valerio Faraoni","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44213278572799,"sku":"9783319011066","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f3bdf0b-d6ba-431b-9213-3e743f888533.jpg?v=1692112992","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/special-relativity-valerio-faraoni-9783319011066","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}