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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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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
  • Raum
  • Relativity (Physics)
  • Space and time
  • Physics
  • Physics
  • physics
  • Space and time
  • Physik
  • Relativitätstheorie
  • Zeit
  • Einführung
  • Relativiteitstheorie
  • Ruimte-tijd-theorie
  • Relatividade E Gravitacao
  • Physics > Philosophy
  • Espace et temps
  • Relativité (physique)
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