Elementary Approach to Special Relativity

ISBN-13: 9789811531675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 362 str.

Helmut Gunther

Spis treści

1 The Discovery of the Ether

2 The Ether and the Wave Equation

3 The Physical Elements of the Special Theory of Relativity

4 Where does the Wave Equation Come from?

5 The Wave Equation and the Third Axiom

6 Lattice and the Continuum

7 Crystalline Solid – Dislocations

8 The sine-Gordon Equation of a Dislocation

9 Natural Measuring-Rods and Clocks

10 Measuring-rods and Clocks in Motion

11 A Clock Paradox

12 Measurement of the Critical Velocity

13 The Lorentz Transformation

14 The Linear Approximation of Special Relativity

15 The Principle of Relativity: The Lost Crystal

16 Two Axiomatic Systems for Special Relativity

17 The Twin Paradox

18 The Doppler  Effect

19 Aberration

20 Tachyons and Causality

21 Violation of Relativity - the Rediscovered Crystal

22 Particles and Fields

23 A Particle Solution - the Inertia of Energy

24 The Michelson Experiment

25 Elastic Displacements and Waves

26 Eigen Stresses and Dislocations

27 The Separation of Eigen Stresses

28 Particles and Tachyons

29 Tachyons of the Plastic Deformation

30 On the Problem of Causality: Particle - Tachyon Collisions

O autorze

Helmut Günther was professor at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences for Mathematics and Physics until 2005 and currently teaches relativity theory at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

 

Blurb

This book presents an alternative representation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, which makes Special Relativity much more comprehensible. Moreover, one will come across a fundamental relationship between the Special Theory of Relativity and the mechanics of space lattice. In all previous formulations, the Einsteinian special principle of relativity, in one or the other form is used as the starting point for Special Relativity. In correspondence to this principle, one takes it as granted apriori, that all observers independent of their uniform motion to each other measure one and the same propagation velocity of a light signal.  This book is thought of as a lecture for physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists and concentrates on the students of these fields. The book should reach a broad circle of interested readers from the fields of natural sciences and philosophy and provide and invigorating experience for engineers.