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Introduction to Spacetime: A First Course on Relativity
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Type.................: Ebook
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This material of this book was successfully used in a course of special
relativity for advanced undergraduates at the University of Stockholm by the
late professor Bertel Laurent, one of Oskar Klein\'s best students. When he sadly
passed away shortly before retirement the manuscript was transformed into a book
by his enthusiastic friend Stig Flodmark.

The book is unusual in that it does not discuss the historical, philosophical,
and experimental background that most book dwell on a lot. Instead special
relativity is clearly and simply presented with modern coordinate free (index
free) notation as a correct and accepted theory of physics. I recommend it
strongly as a concise, pedagogical, and compact course book with a modern point
of view.

Table of Contents

I Principles. Basic Applications 7
1 Clocks and Acceleration 9
2 Vector Algebra 21
3 Vector Characteristics 29
4 Simultaneity and Space Distance 37
5 Linear Independence 45
6 Relative Velocity and Four-Velocity 49
7 Two-Dimensional Spacetime 57
8 Plane Waves 63
9 Particle Reactions 71
10 Curved World Lines 81
II Tensors 91
11 Definition and Examples 93
12 Algebraic Properties 101
13 Tensor Fields 119
14 Spacetime Volumes 129
15 Currents 143
III Electrodynamics 153
16 Sourcefree Electromagnetism 157
17 Electro-Magnetism with Sources 175
18 Solution of the Wave Equation 185

Product Details

* ISBN: 9810219296
* ISBN-13: 9789810219291
* Format: Hardcover, 204pp
* Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
* Pub. Date: May 1995

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