Relativity for Everyone How Space-Time Bends /

• Main Author: Fischer, Kurt (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Astronomy.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Popular Science in Astronomy.

This book explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail, without digressions such as information on Einstein's life or the historical background. However, complicated calculations are replaced with figures and thought experiments, the text being formulated in such a way that t...

Table of Contents:

• Light, matter, and energy
• Light, time, mass, and length
• Light, electricity, and magnetism
• Acceleration and inertia
• Inertia and gravity
• Equivalence principle in action
• How mass creates gravity
• Solving the Einstein equation of gravity
• General Relativity in action
• Epilogue
• Appendices.