Relativity Made Relatively Easy: Volume 1 - Andrew M. Steane

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Résumé :
This book unfolds the subject of Relativity for undergraduate students of physics. It fills a gap between introductory descriptions and texts for researchers. Assuming almost no prior knowledge, it allows the student to handle all the Relativity needed for a university course, with explanations as simple, thorough, and engaging as possible.

Biographie:
Andrew M. Steane was born in Bath, England (1965) and educated at Christ's Hospital school and Oxford University. He has been Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford since 2002 and has been a Visiting Professor at various institutes. Steane was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 2000 for his work on quantum error correction. He has given numerous public lectures and school demonstrations in physics, and is the author of The Wonderful World of Relativity (OUP, Oxford 2011).

Sommaire:
PART I: THE RELATIVISTIC WORLD ; 1. Basic ideas ; 2. The Lorentz transformation ; 3. Moving light sources ; 4. Dynamics ; 5. The conservation of energy-momentum ; 6. Further kinematics ; 7. Relativity and electromagnetism ; 8. Electromagnetic radiation ; PART II: AN INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY ; 9. The Principle of Equivalence ; 10. Warped spacetime ; 11. Physics from the metric ; PART III: FURTHER SPECIAL RELATIVITY ; 12. Tensors and index notation ; 13. Rediscovering electromagnetism ; 14. Lagrangian mechanics ; 15. Angular momentum ; 16. Energy density ; 17. What is spacetime?