Thoroughly revised and updated, this textbook provides a pedagogical introduction to relativity. It is self-contained, but the reader is expected to have a basic knowledge of theoretical mechanics and electrodynamics. It covers the most important features of both special and general relativity, as w
General relativity before special relativity: An unconventional overview of relativity theory
β Scribed by Rindler, Wolfgang
- Book ID
- 120326320
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1012 KB
- Volume
- 62
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9505
- DOI
- 10.1119/1.17734
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From the Commentary by Robert Geroch (The corresponding section of Einsteinβs text can be found below the comment. Please note that in the book, the Commentary is placed after the complete text of Relativity.) Section 17. Space-Time Minkowskiβs viewpoint represents a "geometrization" of relativity.
THE PRESENT book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus 1 of theoretical physics.