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Spacetime Physics
Written by two of the field's true pioneers, Spacetime Physicscan extend and enhance coverage of specialty relativity in the classroom.This thoroughly up-to-date, highly accessible overviewcovers microgravity, collider accelerators, satellite probes, neutron detectors, radioastronomy, and pulsars. The chapter on general relativity with new material on gravity waves, black...more
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
March 15th 1992
by W. H. Freeman
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Well done exposition on Special Relativity. Excellent exercises & examples.
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For students studying physics, special relativity is often relegated to a brief mention in your electromagnetism and mechanics courses, yet never fully treated on its own. Even for the self-motivated learner, there's a disappointing gap between special relativity as presented in popular science literature and the general relativity textbooks used in university courses. Spacetime Physics fills that gap.
Taylor and Wheeler offer a quirky approach to Einstein's theory of special relativity that is f...more
Taylor and Wheeler offer a quirky approach to Einstein's theory of special relativity that is f...more
This was my favorite college textbook, and I regret selling it back. It's as clear and simple an explanation of special relativity as I can imagine. The problem sets in it are very light on symbol manipulation and big on conceptual breakthroughs. If the "mind bending" consequences of special relativity are what you enjoy, this book will point out every kink and straighten it out. Most of the problems open with an apparent paradox. Reading this book feels like playing Braid.
Special Relativity in all of its glory exposed using only high school mathematics. This is not a layman's treatment, it is the full theory. Any high school student wishing to learn this topic who has studied high school physics will be delighted with this text.
A clear, intuitive introduction to special relativity, presented mostly in terms of analogy. The focus is very precise—the three chapters cover reference frames, motion, momentum and energy, and that's it—but if you plow through the discussion and exercises, you will emerge with complete comprehension. The questions at the end of each chapter are daunting, but explanations, which together with the exercises themselves are longer than the chapters, can be found in the back.
This is easily the best introduction to Special Relativity. Good exercises.
Exceptional book. It doesn't go very deep into the various formulas of special relativity, but as far as the understanding of the subject is concerned it's really amazing.
It can be read and (hopefully) understood by anyone with some basic physics knowledge (an high school course would do). In fact it really focuses on explaining the concepts which it makes definitely accessible to most people. This doesn't mean it has no formulas or mathematics, but that's probably the simpler part to understand...more
It can be read and (hopefully) understood by anyone with some basic physics knowledge (an high school course would do). In fact it really focuses on explaining the concepts which it makes definitely accessible to most people. This doesn't mean it has no formulas or mathematics, but that's probably the simpler part to understand...more
The exercises are excellent.
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