<p>In retrospect, the first edition of this book now seems like a mere sketch for a book. The present version is, if not the final product, at least a closer approximation to it. The table of contents may show little change. But that is simply because the original organization of the material has be
Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological
โ Scribed by Wolfgang Rindler (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer New York
- Year
- 1969
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 331
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
The Rise and Fall of Absolute Space....Pages 1-28
Einsteinian Kinematics....Pages 29-67
Einsteinian Optics....Pages 68-77
Spacetime and Four-Vectors....Pages 78-94
Relativistic Particle Mechanics....Pages 95-119
Relativity Electrodynamics....Pages 120-129
Basic Ideas of General Relativity....Pages 130-154
Formal Development of General Relativity....Pages 155-212
Cosmology....Pages 213-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-319
โฆ Subjects
Physics, general
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