Title The Geometry of Special Relativity - a Concise Course Author(s) Dragon, Norbert Publication Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. Description VIII, 143 p. 33 illus : online resource Abstract Note In this concise primer it is shown that, with simple diagrams, the phenomena of time dilatation, length contraction and Lorentz transformations can be deduced from the fact that in a vacuum one cannot distinguish physically straight and uniform motion from rest, and that the speed of light does not depend on the speed of either the source or the observer. The text proceeds to derive the important results of relativistic physics and to resolve its apparent paradoxes. A short introduction into the covariant formulation of electrodynamics is also given. This publication addresses, in particular, students of physics and mathematics in their final undergraduate year ISBN,Price 9783642283291 Keyword(s) 1. Classical and Continuum Physics 2. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory 3. Continuum physics 4. EBOOK 5. EBOOK - SPRINGER 6. GRAVITATION 7. Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences 8. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I07589     On Shelf