Special Relativity

Höfundur: A.P. French (Útgáfa: 1)
Special Relativity

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Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781351988575
Print ISBN
9781138582873
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
A.P. French
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2017-07-12
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Departures from newtonian dynamics
  • Newton
  • “The ultimate speed”
  • Photons
  • The energy-momentum relation for photons
  • Matter and radiation: the inertia of energy
  • Energy, momentum, and mass
  • Is the new dynamics correct?
  • Motion under a constant force
  • “Einstein’s box unhinged”
  • Some comments
  • PROBLEMS
  • 2 Perplexities in the propagation of light
  • The nature of light
  • The luminiferous ether
  • Stellar aberration
  • A modified aberration experiment
  • Fizeau’s measurement of the drag coefficient
  • Prelude to the Michelson-Morley experiment
  • The Michelson-Morley experiment
  • Concluding remarks
  • PROBLEMS
  • 3 Einstein and the Lorentz-Einstein transformations
  • Preamble: the contraction hypothesis
  • Einstein reasserts relativity
  • Relativity according to Galileo and Newton
  • The transformation of Newton’s law
  • Einstein and the universality of c
  • The second postulate and observational evidence
  • The relativity of simultaneity
  • The Lorentz-Einstein transformations
  • More about the Lorentz transformations
  • Minkowski diagrams: Space-time
  • A space-time invariant
  • PROBLEMS
  • 4 Relativity and the measurement of lengths and time intervals
  • Observers
  • Point events and their transformations
  • Time measurements
  • The Lorentz contraction
  • Time dilation
  • Observation of time dilation with cosmic-ray mesons
  • Another interpretation of the time-dilation experiment
  • More about time and length measurements
  • A Michelson-Morley experiment with lasers
  • Relativity is truly relative
  • Space-time intervals and causality
  • PROBLEMS
  • 5 Relativistic kinematics
  • Transformation of velocities
  • Radiation from a rapidly moving source
  • Light in a moving medium: the drag coefficient
  • Transverse motions; stellar aberration
  • The Doppler effect
  • More about Doppler effects
  • Doppler effect and time dilation
  • A new search for the ether
  • Looking at moving clocks and other objects
  • Accelerated motions
  • The twins
  • PROBLEMS
  • 6 Relativistic dynamics—collisions and conservation laws
  • Two views of an elastic collision
  • Two views of an inelastic collision
  • Further remarks on the conservation laws
  • Absorption and emission of photons
  • The Mossbauer effect
  • The photon rocket
  • Creation of particles
  • Scattering
  • The Doppler effect revisited
  • PROBLEMS
  • 7 More about relativistic dynamics
  • An energy-momentum invariant and its use
  • Lorentz transformations for energy and momentum
  • Four-vectors
  • Force in relativistic mechanics
  • Magnetic analysis of relativistic particles
  • General force transformations; action and reaction
  • PROBLEMS
  • 8 Relativity and electricity
  • Coulomb’s law
  • The magnetic force on a moving charge
  • Introducing the relativistic approach
  • The transformation of Coulomb’s law
  • The force on a stationary test charge
  • The force on a moving test charge
  • The field of a line distribution of charge
  • The magnetic field and relativity
  • The magnetic force on a moving charge due to a current-bearing wire
  • More about magnetic forces and Lorentz contractions
  • The force between current-bearing wires
  • Units and systems of electric and magnetic measurement
  • PROBLEMS
  • Epilogue
  • A short bibliography
  • Answers to problems
  • Index