Discovering Relativity for yourself explains Einstein's Theory of Relativity to readers who are daunted by the standard mathematical approach to that profound theory.
Discovering Relativity for yourself explains Einstein's Theory of Relativity to readers who are daunted by the standard mathematical approach to that profound theory.
1. Getting started 2. Rough and ready Relativity 3. The dilation of time 4. Three clocks and a pair of twins 5. Starting again 6. Space-time diagrams 7. Time and distance 'over there' 8. Co-ordinate systems 9. Combining speeds 10. Causality and the speed of light 11. The nature of spacetime 12. Interval 13. Old friends revisited 14. The scales of the spacetime diagram 15. The radar point of view 16. Relations between the radar and time-distance systems 17. Constant acceleration 18. Dynamics - mass, momentum, force 19. The mass-energy relation 20. The effect of acceleration on time measurement 21. Time as experienced by a constant acceleration traveler 22 Time and distance measurements of a constant acceleration observer 23. The Principle of Equivalence 24. The metric 25. Introducing geodesics 26. How to find ordinary geodesics 27. Inverse square law gravity 28. Curved spacetime 29. The metric around the Sun 30. Light and gravity 31. The scandal about Mercury 32. How Einstein did it 33. A few conclusions.
1. Getting started 2. Rough and ready Relativity 3. The dilation of time 4. Three clocks and a pair of twins 5. Starting again 6. Space-time diagrams 7. Time and distance 'over there' 8. Co-ordinate systems 9. Combining speeds 10. Causality and the speed of light 11. The nature of spacetime 12. Interval 13. Old friends revisited 14. The scales of the spacetime diagram 15. The radar point of view 16. Relations between the radar and time-distance systems 17. Constant acceleration 18. Dynamics - mass, momentum, force 19. The mass-energy relation 20. The effect of acceleration on time measurement 21. Time as experienced by a constant acceleration traveler 22 Time and distance measurements of a constant acceleration observer 23. The Principle of Equivalence 24. The metric 25. Introducing geodesics 26. How to find ordinary geodesics 27. Inverse square law gravity 28. Curved spacetime 29. The metric around the Sun 30. Light and gravity 31. The scandal about Mercury 32. How Einstein did it 33. A few conclusions.
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