Common Sense Relativity and Spacetime: Looking Physics Right in the Eye - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tamás MatolcsiSeries:de Gruyter TextbookPublish date:3/9/2026Pages:308
Language:EnglishPublisher:de GruyterISBN-13:9783119146067ISBN-10:3119146064UPC:9783119146067Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Space Science, Applied Sciences, PhysicsBook Topic:Astronomy, RelativitySize:9.61 x 6.69 x 0.65 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCHAHC0VBS
Common Sense Relativity and Spacetime: Looking Physics Right in the Eye
Based on simple, common-sense observations, the author introduces spacetime in an easily understandable way. Concepts in and around spacetime are explained first independently of any kind of 'relativity connotation', then in the nonrelativistic context and finally in the special relativistic context. Reference frames, while traditionally foundational, make reasoning about spacetime unnecessarily...
Series: de Gruyter Textbook
Language:EnglishPublisher:de GruyterISBN-13:9783119146067ISBN-10:3119146064UPC:9783119146067Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Space Science, Applied Sciences, PhysicsBook Topic:Astronomy, RelativitySize:9.61 x 6.69 x 0.65 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCHAHC0VBS
Tamás Matolcsi completed his MSc in physics followed by his doctorate at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary in 1975. In his doctoral thesis "Some questions of the theory of de Rham currents and their application in Electromagnetism" he already started his work to make vague and ambiguous notions in the classical theory of Electromagnetism clear and precise using appropriate...
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