Mermin It's About Time

Understanding Einstein's Relativity
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3084-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 115, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Science Library

N. David Mermin is a theoretical physicist who has worked in solid state physics, low temperature physics, statistical physics, crystallography, and foundations of quantum mechanics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and won the first Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical society for 'his remarkable clarity and wit as a lecturer to nonspecialists on difficult subjects.' His books include Solid State Physics, Boojums All the Way Through, and Space and Time in Special Relativity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mermin, N. David

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Zeiterfassung, Chronologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeitmessung: Physikalische und Technische Aspekte
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Relativität, Gravitation
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Why Another Relativity Book ix

Note to Readers xiv

Chapter One: The Principle of Relativity 1

Chapter Two: Combining (Small)Velocities 14

Chapter Three: The Speed of Light 19

Chapter Four: Combining (Any)Velocities 28

Chapter Five: Simultaneous Events;Synchronized Clocks 45

Chapter Six: Moving Clocks Run Slowly;Moving Sticks Shrink 58

Chapter Seven: Looking At a Moving Clock 73

Chapter Eight: The Interval between Events 79

Chapter Nine: Trains of Rockets 89

Chapter Ten: Space-Time Geometry 102

Chapter Eleven: E =M2 144

Chapter Twelve: A Bit about General Relativity 171

Chapter Thirteen: What Makes It Happen? 179

Index 187

Über Autor(innen)

N. David Mermin is a theoretical physicist who has worked in solid state physics, low temperature physics, statistical physics, crystallography, and foundations of quantum mechanics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and won the first Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical society for "his remarkable clarity and wit as a lecturer to nonspecialists on difficult subjects." His books include Solid State Physics, Boojums All the Way Through, and Space and Time in Special Relativity.