Modern Special Relativity

Modern Special Relativity

A Student's Guide with Discussions and Examples

Rafelski, Johann

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

03/2022

458

Mole

Inglês

9783030543518

15 a 20 dias

730

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What is (Special) Relativity?.- Light and the aether.- Material Bodies in SR.- Time Dilation.- The Lorentz-FitzGerald Body Contraction.- Relativistic Coordinate Transformation.- Some Consequences of Lorentz Transformation.- Time Measurement and Lorentz Transformation.- Different Methods of Measuring Spatial Separation.- The Bell Rockets.- The Light-Cone.- Space-time.- SR-Doppler Shift.- Mass and Energy.- Particle Momentum.- Generalized Mass-Energy Equivalence.- Preferred Frame of Reference.- Particle Reactions.- Tests of Special Relativity.- Acceleration.- Acceleration and Lorentz Force.- Electrons Riding a Plane Wave.- Travel in the Milky Way.- Relativistic Rocket Equation.
Ether discussion;Michelson-Morley Experiment;Time dilation in Special Relativity;Lorentz transformation;Doppler shift;Mass-energy equivalence;Tests of Special Relativity;Space Travel