Research Catalog
Spacetime physics
- Title
- Spacetime physics / Edwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler.
- Author
- Taylor, Edwin F.
- Publication
- San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, 1966.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | 8223.896.2 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
- Description
- 208 pages : illustrations, portraits; 27 cm
- Series Statement
- A Series of books in physics
- Uniform Title
- Series of books in physics
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- (Ch. 1) Geometry of spacetime. Parable of the surveyors -- Inertial reference frame -- Principle of relativity -- Coordinates of an event -- Invariance of the interval -- The spacetime diagram; world lines -- Regions of spacetime -- The Lorentz transformation -- The velocity parameter -- (ch. 2) Momentum and energy. Introduction; momentum and energy in units of mass -- Momentum -- The momentum-energy 4-vector -- The equivalence of energy and rest mass -- (ch. 3) Physics of curved spacetime.
- ISBN
- 071670336X
- 9780716703365
- 0716703149
- 9780716703143
- LCCN
- 65013566
- x280061535
- OCLC
- ocm00530999
- 530999
- SCSB-227631
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library