Special Relativity, Electrodynamics, and General Relativity: From Newton to Einstein

ISBN-13: 9780128137208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 454 str.

John B. Kogut

Opis

Special Relativity, Electrodynamics and General Relativity: From Newton to Einstein, Second Edition, is intended to teach (astro)physics, astronomy, and cosmology students how to think about special and general relativity in a fundamental, but accessible, way. Designed to render any reader a "master of relativity," everything on the subject is comprehensible and derivable from first principles. The book emphasizes problem solving, contains abundant problem sets, and is conveniently organized to meet the needs of both student and instructor.

• Fully revised, updated and expanded second edition
• Includes new chapters on magnetism as a consequence of relativity and electromagnetism
• Contains many improved and more engaging figures
• Uses less algebra resulting in more efficient derivations
• Enlarged discussion of dynamics and the relativistic version of Newton's second law

Spis treści

1. Physics According to Newton - A World with No Speed Limit2. Space-Time Measurements According to Einstein3. Visualizing Relativity-Minkowski Diagrams and the Twins4. Lorentz Transformations (boosts), Addition of Velocities, and Invariant Intervals5. Illustrations and Problems in Space-Time Measurements6. Relativistic Dynamics. First Steps.7. Acceleration and Forces in Relativity. The Birth of Dynamical Fields.8. Boosting the Electrostatic Force, Electromagnetic Fields and More on Four Vectors9. Maxwell's Equations of Electrodynamics and the Wave Equation10. Magnetism in the Lab, the Discovery of Relativity and the Way Forward11. Introduction to General Relativity12. Curvature, Strong Gravity and Gravitational Waves

Appendix A. Physical Constants, Data, and Conversion FactorsB. Solutions to Selected Problems C. Mathematics BackgroundD. Theorems and Concepts of Vector CalculusE. Summary of FormulasF. The Wave Equation with Sources. The Four Vector Potential and the Lorenz GaugeG. Equation of Motion in Curved Space and Christoffel Symbols, Two Dimensional Surfaces and the Geodesic Deviation and Gravity Waves

O autorze

John Benjamin Kogut, PhD, is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in high energy physics. He has contributed to the quark-parton model, light-cone quantization, quark confinement, lattice gauge theory, Quantum Chromodynamics (the field theory of quarks and gluons) in extreme environments (high temperatures and densities), and supercomputer simulations as a tool for theoretical physics. For 27 years Dr. Kogut was on the physics faculty of the Loomis Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, retiring in 2005 as professor emeritus.