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Ralph Baierlein - Newton to Einstein: The Trail of Light, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

Newton to Einstein: The Trail of Light

An Excursion to the Wave-Particle Duality and the Special Theory of Relativity

Av Ralph Baierlein

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This undergraduate text takes the reader along the trail of light from Newton's particles to Einstein's relativity. Like the best detective stories, it presents clues and encourages the reader to draw conclusions before the answers are revealed. The first seven chapters describe how light behaves, develop Newton's particle theory, introduce waves and an electromagnetic wave theory of light, discover the photon, and culminate in the wave-particle duality. The book then goes on to develop the special theory of relativity, showing how time dilation and length contraction are consequences of the two simple principles on which the theory is founded. An extensive chapter derives the equation E = mc2 clearly from first principles and then explores its consequences and the misconceptions surrounding it. That most famous of issues arising from special relativity - the aging of the twins - is treated simply but compellingly.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2001-08-16
  • Mått: 175 x 246 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 733 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 348
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521423236
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RALPH BAIERLEIN received his PhD from Princeton University; his thirty seven years of classroom teaching were spent at Harvard and at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. He has published papers in astrophysics, cosmology and relativity theory. For eight years he served as book review editor of the American Journal of Physics, and has written many papers related to the teaching of physics. In 1996 he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.

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' … I find Baierlein's approach highly congenial. Indeed I expect that some of the fascinating stories I learned from him and, more importantly, some of the excellent tricks he has taught me (particularly several neat and simple gedanken experiments that lead to relativistic momentum) will make my own course very much better. I can offer no higher praise. N. David Mermin, American Journal of Physics

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