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It's about time: understanding Einstein's relativity
It's about time: understanding Einstein's relativity
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Mermin, N. David
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Preface : why another relativity book
1. principle of relativity
2. Combining (small) velocities
3. speed of light
4. Combining (any) velocities
5. Simultaneous events; synchronized clocks
6. Moving clocks run slowly; moving sticks shrink
7. Looking at a moving clock
8. interval between events
9. Trains of rockets
10. Space-time geometry
11. E = Mc[superscript 2]
12. bit about general relativity
13. What makes it happen?
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Special relativity (Physics)
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Mermin, N. David
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9780691122014
978069122014
9781400830848
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