Special Relativity in General Frames From Particles to Astrophysics /

• Main Author: Gourgoulhon, Éric (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Gravitation.; Fluids.; Astrophysics.; Particle acceleration.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Applications of Mathematics.

Special relativity is the basis of many fields in modern physics: particle physics, quantum field theory, high-energy astrophysics, etc. This theory is presented here by adopting a four-dimensional point of view from the start. An outstanding feature of the book is that it doesn’t restrict itself to...