Basic Relativity: An Introductory Essay

ISBN-13: 9783642178092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 104 str.

Peter Hrasko

Opis

This text goes much further than describing the fundamentals of general relativity, using a fresh approach that explains perplexing relativistic effects such as time dilation and Lorentz contraction prior to the volume 's discussion of Lorentz-transformation.

Spis treści

From Time Dilation to E = mc^2.- The Lorentz Transformation.- General Relativity.- Concluding Remarks.- Selected Problems

O autorze

Péter Hraskó received higher education in the Ural State Technological University in Yekaterinburg (former Sverdlovsk in USSR) and Ph. D. degree in physics in the KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics in Budapest (Hungary). He worked there until his retirement. He was also professor of the Theoretical Physics Department at the University of Pécs (Hungary). Péter Hraskó received the Prometheus Medal of the Hungarian Society of Physics for the Spreading of Scientific Knowledge.