Introduction to Special Relativity

Books about Introduction to Special Relativity

Books about Introduction to Special Relativity

By the year 1900, most of physics seemed to be encompassed in the two great theories of Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. Unfortunately, there were inconsistencies between the two theories that seemed irreconcilable. Although many physicists struggled with the problem, it took the genius of Einstein to see

It is now nearly a century since special relativity reconciled seventeenth century dynamics and nineteenth century electromagnetism, yet physics students are almost invariably introduced to the subject as “MODERN PHYSICS” — and something of a mystery. This book, instead, treats special relativity as a useful branch of physics rather than

Books about Introduction to Special Theory of Relativity