Spacetime PhysicsMacmillan, 1992 M03 15 - 312 pages Written by two of the field's true pioneers, Spacetime Physics can extend and enhance coverage of specialty relativity in the classroom. This thoroughly up-to-date, highly accessible overview covers microgravity, collider accelerators, satellite probes, neutron detectors, radioastronomy, and pulsars. The chapter on general relativity with new material on gravity waves, black holes, and cosmology. |
Contents
OVERVIEW OVERVIEW | 1 |
Meter Second | 18 |
2 10 Summary 43 References 44 Exercises | 45 |
3 3 What IS the Same in Different Frames 60 3 4 Relativity | 67 |
Special Topic | 95 |
L 7 Addition of Velocities 103 L 8 Summary | 111 |
TRIP TO CANOPUS | 121 |
TREKKING THROUGH SPACETIME | 137 |
MOMENERGY | 189 |
A second great unity is momentumenergy momenergy its measure mass | 195 |
Momenergy | 201 |
7 7 Summary 211 Acknowledgment | 213 |
COLLIDE CREATE ANNIHILATE | 221 |
Photon 228 8 5 Photon | 234 |
References | 246 |
CURVED SPACETIME | 275 |
5 9 Touring Spacetime Without a Reference Frame | 160 |
REGIONS OF SPACETIME | 171 |
Spacetime | 177 |
Gravity is not a force reaching across space but a distortioncurvature | 284 |
Common terms and phrases
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