Why Does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care?)

✍ Scribed by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw

Publisher: Da Capo Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 264
Series: And Why Should We Care?
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book is very clearly written--for the most part. When it gets to the core of the book (as defined by its title), it falters. The logic is unclear and the formula for kinetic energy is introduced and the reader is supposed to take it on faith that since kinetic engergy E = 1/2 mv2 (squared), for mass, E = mc2 (squared). Sorry, I don't buy it.

Apart from that, the text is lucid (hence the 4 stars).

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
1. SPACE AND TIME......Page 16
2. THE SPEED OF LIGHT......Page 32
3. SPECIAL RELATIVITY......Page 52
4. SPACETIME......Page 72
5. WHY DOES E=mc[sub(2)]?......Page 118
6. AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE? OF ATOMS, MOUSETRAPS, AND THE POWER OF THE STARS......Page 158
7. THE ORIGIN OF MASS......Page 186
8. WARPING SPACETIME......Page 234
C......Page 258
E......Page 259
H......Page 260
M......Page 261
P......Page 262
S......Page 263
Z......Page 264

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