Relativity Matters From Einstein's EMC2 to Laser Particle Acceleration and Quark-Gluon Plasma /

• Main Author: Rafelski, Johann (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Particle acceleration.; Atoms.; Matter.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Classical Electrodynamics.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Classical Mechanics.

Rafelski presents Special Relativity in a language deemed accessible to students without any topical preparation - avoiding the burden of geometry, tensor calculus, and space-time symmetries – and yet advancing in highly contemporary context all the way to research frontiers. Special Relativity is p...

Table of Contents:

• Preamble
• Space-Time, Light and the Aether
• Time Dilation, and Lorentz Contraction
• The Lorentz Transformation
• Measurement
• Time
• Mass, Energy, Momentum
• Collisions, Decays
• 4-Vectors and 4-Force
• Motion of Charged Particles
• Covariant Force and Field
• Dynamics of Fields and Particles
• Index.