A description of the geometry of space-time with all the questions and issues explained without the need for formulas. As such, the author shows that this is indeed geometry, with actual constructions familiar from Euclidean geometry, and which allow exact demonstrations and proofs. The formal mathematics behind these constructions is provided in the appendices. The result is thus not a textbook introducing readers to the theory of special relativity so they may calculate formally, but rather aims to show the connection with synthetic geometry. It presents the relation to projective...
A description of the geometry of space-time with all the questions and issues explained without the need for formulas. As such, the author shows that ...
Cosmology deals with the current state of thinking about the basic questions at the center of the field of cosmology. More emphasis than usual is put on the connections to related domains of science, such as geometry, relativity, thermodynamics, particle physics, and - in particular - on the intrinsic connections between the different topics. The chapters are illustrated with many figures that are as exact as currently possible, e.g. in the case of geometry and relativity. Readers acquire a graduate-level knowledge of cosmology as it is required to understand the cosmological impact of...
Cosmology deals with the current state of thinking about the basic questions at the center of the field of cosmology. More emphasis than usual is p...
As a boy of 12, Einstein encountered the wonder of Euclidean plane geometry in a little book that he called "das heilige Geometrie-Buchlein" ("the holy geometry booklet"). Something similar happened to Dierck Liebscher - though admittedly not quite at the tender age of 12. As a physics student in Dresden, he heard lectures on projective geometry. The delight he got from these lectures has remained with him through his working life, and he has now passed on some of it in the present book. It is a rather unusual book and all the better for it. One of the sad things about the hectic pace and...
As a boy of 12, Einstein encountered the wonder of Euclidean plane geometry in a little book that he called "das heilige Geometrie-Buchlein" ("the hol...
Cosmology deals with the current state of thinking about the basic questions at the center of the field of cosmology. More emphasis than usual is put on the connections to related domains of science, such as geometry, relativity, thermodynamics, particle physics, and - in particular - on the intrinsic connections between the different topics. The chapters are illustrated with many figures that are as exact as currently possible, e.g. in the case of geometry and relativity. Readers acquire a graduate-level knowledge of cosmology as it is required to understand the cosmological impact of...
Cosmology deals with the current state of thinking about the basic questions at the center of the field of cosmology. More emphasis than usual is p...
Die spezielle Relativitatstheorie ubt einen besonderen Reiz auf den physikalisch Interessierten aus, weil der Bezug ihrer Aussagen auf die elementaren Vorstellungen von Raum, Zeit und Bewegung es nahelegt, mit einfachen Mitteln Konstruktionen und Schlusse nachzuvollziehen. Jedoch treten oft Verstandnisschwierigkeiten auf, deren Kern in dem ungewohnten Verhalten der Zeitkoordinate, in 1 der EINSTEINschen Relativitat der Gleichzeitigkeit, liegt. ) In vielen Fallen erreicht man mit der richtigen Zeich nung des zeitlichen Ablaufs eines Vorgangs dessen sichere Analyse. Dieses Buch soll als...
Die spezielle Relativitatstheorie ubt einen besonderen Reiz auf den physikalisch Interessierten aus, weil der Bezug ihrer Aussagen auf die elementaren...
