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Subtlety in Relativity

Author : Sanjay Moreshwar Wagh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351238310
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Subtlety in Relativity written by Sanjay Moreshwar Wagh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtlety in Relativity is the only book that has been written after the author’s discovery of a new way in which wave phenomena occur—the emission origin of waves. This drastically changes most issues of the old debate over the world being either deterministic or probabilistic. The emission origin of waves is not incompatible with the ideas of quantum theory; rather, this new and novel way in which waves can be generated justifies the use of mathematical and probabilistic methods of quantum theory. However, the emission origin of waves shows that quantum theory is statistically incomplete in, precisely, Einstein’s sense. There exists, then, a certain, previously unexplored, conceptual framework underlying the ideas of quantum theory. Whether this is the theory that Einstein and others were looking for then, how this way of thinking is related to the ideas of relativity, and whether this is a relativistic theory in the usual sense of this word are questions this book answers. The book demonstrates how the Doppler effect with acceleration is essential to interpreting astronomical observations. It also offers a detailed and self-sufficient technical background of mathematical ideas of category theory. The book is divided into two parts. The first is less mathematical and more conceptual in its orientation. The second focuses on mathematical ideas needed to implement physical concepts. The book is a great reference for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level students of physics and researchers in physics, astronomy, and cosmology, who will gain a deeper understanding of relativity from it.

Subtlety in Relativity

Author : Sanjay Moreshwar Wagh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351238302
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Subtlety in Relativity written by Sanjay Moreshwar Wagh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtlety in Relativity is the only book that has been written after the author’s discovery of a new way in which wave phenomena occur—the emission origin of waves. This drastically changes most issues of the old debate over the world being either deterministic or probabilistic. The emission origin of waves is not incompatible with the ideas of quantum theory; rather, this new and novel way in which waves can be generated justifies the use of mathematical and probabilistic methods of quantum theory. However, the emission origin of waves shows that quantum theory is statistically incomplete in, precisely, Einstein’s sense. There exists, then, a certain, previously unexplored, conceptual framework underlying the ideas of quantum theory. Whether this is the theory that Einstein and others were looking for then, how this way of thinking is related to the ideas of relativity, and whether this is a relativistic theory in the usual sense of this word are questions this book answers. The book demonstrates how the Doppler effect with acceleration is essential to interpreting astronomical observations. It also offers a detailed and self-sufficient technical background of mathematical ideas of category theory. The book is divided into two parts. The first is less mathematical and more conceptual in its orientation. The second focuses on mathematical ideas needed to implement physical concepts. The book is a great reference for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level students of physics and researchers in physics, astronomy, and cosmology, who will gain a deeper understanding of relativity from it.

Subtle is the Lord

Author : Abraham Pais
Publisher : OUP UK
ISBN 13 : 0192806726
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Subtle is the Lord written by Abraham Pais and published by OUP UK. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtle is the Lord is widely recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein. The late Abraham Pais was a distinguished physicist turned historian who knew Einstein both professionally and personally in the last years of his life. His biography combines a profound understanding of Einstein's work with personal recollections from their years of acquaintance, illuminating the man through the development of his scientific thought.Pais examines the formulation of Einstein's theories of relativity, his work on Brownian motion, and his response to quantum theory with authority and precision. The profound transformation Einstein's ideas effected on the physics of the turn of the century is here laid out for the serious reader. Pais also fills many gaps in what we know of Einstein's life - his interest in philosophy, his concern with Jewish destiny, and his opinions of great figures from Newton to Freud. This remarkablevolume, written by a physicist who mingled in Einstein's scientific circle, forms a timeless and classic biography of the towering figure of twentieth-century science.

General Relativity

Author : M. P. Hobson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521829519
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book General Relativity written by M. P. Hobson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists provides a clear mathematical introduction to Einstein's theory of general relativity. It presents a wide range of applications of the theory, concentrating on its physical consequences. After reviewing the basic concepts, the authors present a clear and intuitive discussion of the mathematical background, including the necessary tools of tensor calculus and differential geometry. These tools are then used to develop the topic of special relativity and to discuss electromagnetism in Minkowski spacetime. Gravitation as spacetime curvature is then introduced and the field equations of general relativity derived. After applying the theory to a wide range of physical situations, the book concludes with a brief discussion of classical field theory and the derivation of general relativity from a variational principle. Written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this approachable textbook contains over 300 exercises to illuminate and extend the discussion in the text.

Relativity and Geometry

Author : Roberto Torretti
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483147371
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Relativity and Geometry written by Roberto Torretti and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relativity and Geometry aims to elucidate the motivation and significance of the changes in physical geometry brought about by Einstein, in both the first and the second phases of relativity. The book contains seven chapters and a mathematical appendix. The first two chapters review a historical background of relativity. Chapter 3 centers on Einstein's first Relativity paper of 1905. Subsequent chapter presents the Minkowskian formulation of special relativity. Chapters 5 and 6 deal with Einstein's search for general relativity from 1907 to 1915, as well as some aspects and subsequent developments of the theory. The last chapter explores the concept of simultaneity, geometric conventionalism, and a few other questions concerning space time structure, causality, and time.

Essential Relativity

Author : W. Rindler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540079705
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Essential Relativity written by W. Rindler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1977-05-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most exciting and active branches of current research. In conference after conference the view is expressed that cosmology today is where particle physics was forty years ago, with major discoveries just waiting to happen. Also gravitational wave detectors, presently under construction or in the testing phase, promise to open up an entirely novel field of physics. The book's basic purpose is to make relativity come alive conceptually. Hence the emphasis on the foundations and the logical subtleties rather than on the mathematics or the detailed experiments per se.

Special Relativity in General Frames

Author : Éric Gourgoulhon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642372767
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Book Synopsis Special Relativity in General Frames by : Éric Gourgoulhon

Download or read book Special Relativity in General Frames written by Éric Gourgoulhon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special relativity is the basis of many fields in modern physics: particle physics, quantum field theory, high-energy astrophysics, etc. This theory is presented here by adopting a four-dimensional point of view from the start. An outstanding feature of the book is that it doesn’t restrict itself to inertial frames but considers accelerated and rotating observers. It is thus possible to treat physical effects such as the Thomas precession or the Sagnac effect in a simple yet precise manner. In the final chapters, more advanced topics like tensorial fields in spacetime, exterior calculus and relativistic hydrodynamics are addressed. In the last, brief chapter the author gives a preview of gravity and shows where it becomes incompatible with Minkowsky spacetime. Well illustrated and enriched by many historical notes, this book also presents many applications of special relativity, ranging from particle physics (accelerators, particle collisions, quark-gluon plasma) to astrophysics (relativistic jets, active galactic nuclei), and including practical applications (Sagnac gyrometers, synchrotron radiation, GPS). In addition, the book provides some mathematical developments, such as the detailed analysis of the Lorentz group and its Lie algebra. The book is suitable for students in the third year of a physics degree or on a masters course, as well as researchers and any reader interested in relativity. Thanks to the geometric approach adopted, this book should also be beneficial for the study of general relativity. “A modern presentation of special relativity must put forward its essential structures, before illustrating them using concrete applications to specific dynamical problems. Such is the challenge (so successfully met!) of the beautiful book by Éric Gourgoulhon.” (excerpt from the Foreword by Thibault Damour)

Energy, the Subtle Concept

Author : Jennifer Coopersmith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191057517
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Energy, the Subtle Concept written by Jennifer Coopersmith and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy is at the heart of physics and of huge importance to society and yet no book exists specifically to explain it, and in simple terms. In tracking the history of energy, this book is filled with the thrill of the chase, the mystery of smoke and mirrors, and presents a fascinating human-interest story. Moreover, following the history provides a crucial aid to understanding: this book explains the intellectual revolutions required to comprehend energy, revolutions as profound as those stemming from Relativity and Quantum Theory. Texts by Descartes, Leibniz, Bernoulli, d'Alembert, Lagrange, Hamilton, Boltzmann, Clausius, Carnot and others are made accessible, and the engines of Watt and Joule are explained. Many fascinating questions are covered, including: - Why just kinetic and potential energies - is one more fundamental than the other? - What are heat, temperature and action? - What is the Hamiltonian? - What have engines to do with physics? - Why did the steam-engine evolve only in England? - Why S=klogW works and why temperature is IT. Using only a minimum of mathematics, this book explains the emergence of the modern concept of energy, in all its forms: Hamilton's mechanics and how it shaped twentieth-century physics, and the meaning of kinetic energy, potential energy, temperature, action, and entropy. It is as much an explanation of fundamental physics as a history of the fascinating discoveries that lie behind our knowledge today.

Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity

Author : W.L. Craig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401735328
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity by : W.L. Craig

Download or read book Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity written by W.L. Craig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The larger project of which this volume forms part is an attempt to craft a coherent doctrine of divine eternity and God's relationship to time. Central to this project is the integration of the concerns of theology with the concept of time in relativity theory. This volume provides an accessible and philosophically informed examination of the concept of time in relativity, the ultimate aim being the achievement of a tenable theological synthesis.

Numerical Relativity

Author : Thomas W. Baumgarte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052151407X
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Numerical Relativity written by Thomas W. Baumgarte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedagogical introduction to numerical relativity for students and researchers entering the field, and interested scientists.

Introduction to Special Relativity

Author : Wolfgang Rindler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198531821
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Special Relativity written by Wolfgang Rindler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook offers a concise but thorough treatment of the theory of special relativity for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Assuming no prior knowledge of relativity, the author elaborates the underlying logic and describes the subtleties and apparent paradoxes. The text also contains a large number of problems which cover the basic modes of thinking and calculating in special relativity. Emphasis is placed on developing the student's intuitive understanding of space-time geometry along with the necessary methods of four-tensor calculus, though three-dimensional methods are also described. This updated new edition contains additional examples and problems, and the chapter on relativistic mechanics of continua has been substantially rewritten.

The Genesis of General Relativity

Author : Jürgen Renn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402040008
Total Pages : 2072 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Genesis of General Relativity written by Jürgen Renn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-17 with total page 2072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity. Einstein’s 1912 Zurich notebook is published for the first time in facsimile and transcript and commented on by today’s major historians of science. Additional sources from Einstein and others, who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development, are presented here in translation for the first time. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity.

It’s About Time: Elementary Mathematical Aspects of Relativity

Author : Roger Cooke
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470436698
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis It’s About Time: Elementary Mathematical Aspects of Relativity by : Roger Cooke

Download or read book It’s About Time: Elementary Mathematical Aspects of Relativity written by Roger Cooke and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has three main goals. First, it explores a selection of topics from the early period of the theory of relativity, focusing on particular aspects that are interesting or unusual. These include the twin paradox; relativistic mechanics and its interaction with Maxwell's laws; the earliest triumphs of general relativity relating to the orbit of Mercury and the deflection of light passing near the sun; and the surprising bizarre metric of Kurt Gödel, in which time travel is possible. Second, it provides an exposition of the differential geometry needed to understand these topics on a level that is intended to be accessible to those with just two years of university-level mathematics as background. Third, it reflects on the historical development of the subject and its significance for our understanding of what reality is and how we can know about the physical universe. The book also takes note of historical prefigurations of relativity, such as Euler's 1744 result that a particle moving on a surface and subject to no tangential acceleration will move along a geodesic, and the work of Lorentz and Poincaré on space-time coordinate transformations between two observers in motion at constant relative velocity. The book is aimed at advanced undergraduate mathematics, science, and engineering majors (and, of course, at any interested person who knows a little university-level mathematics). The reader is assumed to know the rudiments of advanced calculus, a few techniques for solving differential equations, some linear algebra, and basics of set theory and groups.

Introduction to Special Relativity

Author : James H. Smith
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486808963
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Special Relativity written by James H. Smith and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the year 1900, most of physics seemed to be encompassed in the two great theories of Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. Unfortunately, there were inconsistencies between the two theories that seemed irreconcilable. Although many physicists struggled with the problem, it took the genius of Einstein to see that the inconsistencies were concerned not merely with mechanics and electromagnetism, but with our most elementary ideas of space and time. In the special theory of relativity, Einstein resolved these difficulties and profoundly altered our conception of the physical universe. Readers looking for a concise, well-written explanation of one of the most important theories in modern physics need search no further than this lucid undergraduate-level text. Replete with examples that make it especially suitable for self-study, the book assumes only a knowledge of algebra. Topics include classical relativity and the relativity postulate, time dilation, the twin paradox, momentum and energy, particles of zero mass, electric and magnetic fields and forces, and more.

Special Relativity for Physicists

Author : G. Stephenson
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486836606
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Special Relativity for Physicists written by G. Stephenson and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even in the most technical sections, the authors' writing is delightfully lucid, and they give many applications to classical and modern physics . . . Undergraduates, and those who require some understanding of special relativity for their work in other fields, will find this elegant work a pleasure to read." — Technology This concise account of special relativity is geared toward nonspecialists and belongs in the library of anyone interested in the subject and its applications to both classical and modern physics. The treatment takes a historical point of view, without making heavy demands on readers' mathematical abilities; in fact, the theory is developed without the use of tensor calculus, requiring only a working knowledge of three-dimensional vector analysis. Topics include detailed coverage of the Lorentz transformation, including optical and dynamical applications, and applications to modern physics. An excellent bibliography completes this compact, accessible presentation.

A General Relativity Coursebook

Author : Ed Daw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009242458
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A General Relativity Coursebook written by Ed Daw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General relativity is a subject that most undergraduates in physics are particularly curious about, but it has a reputation for being very difficult. This book provides as gentle an introduction to general relativity as possible, leading you through the necessary mathematics in order to arrive at important results. Of course, you cannot avoid the mathematics of general relativity altogether, but, using this book, you can gain an appreciation of tensors and differential geometry at a pace you can keep up with. Early chapters build up to a complete derivation of Einstein's Equations, while the final chapters cover the key applications on black holes, cosmology and gravitational waves. It is designed as a coursebook with just enough material to cover in a one-semester undergraduate class, but it is also accessible to any numerate readers who wish to appreciate the power and beauty of Einstein's creation for themselves.

Relativity for Scientists and Engineers

Author : Ray Skinner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486793672
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Relativity for Scientists and Engineers written by Ray Skinner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-part treatment explores special relativity in terms of kinematics and introductory dynamics as well as general relativity. Ideal for classroom use, supplementary reading, and self-study. Numerous problems with solutions. 1969 edition.