Einstein's Relativity The Ultimate Key to the Cosmos /

This richly illustrated book is unique in bringing Einstein's relativity to a higher level for the non-specialist than has ever been attempted before, using nothing more than grade-school algebra. Bondi's approach with spacetime diagrams is simplified and expanded, clarifying the famous as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cooperstock, Fred I. (Author), Tieu, Steven (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Aspects of Classical Physics
  • A Simple Approach to Einstein's Special Relativity
  • Introducing Einstein's General Relativity
  • Testing Einstein’s General Relativity
  • Gravitational Waves and Energy-Momentum
  • The Universe According to Relativity
  • Spacetime Diagrams for General Relativity
  • The Motion of the Stars in the Galaxies
  • The Motion of Galaxies in Galaxy Clusters
  • Dark Energy
  • Time Machines, the Multiverse and Other Fantasies.