Relativity Matters

Relativity Matters

From Einstein's EMC2 to Laser Particle Acceleration and Quark-Gluon Plasma

Rafelski, Johann

Springer International Publishing AG

03/2017

468

Mole

Inglês

9783319512303

15 a 20 dias

Rafelski presents Special Relativity in a language deemed accessible to students without any topical preparation - avoiding the burden of geometry, tensor calculus, and space-time symmetries - and yet advancing in highly contemporary context all the way to research frontiers.
Preamble.- Space-Time, Light and the Aether.- Time Dilation, and Lorentz Contraction.- The Lorentz Transformation.- Measurement.- Time.- Mass, Energy, Momentum.- Collisions, Decays.- 4-Vectors and 4-Force.- Motion of Charged Particles.- Covariant Force and Field.- Dynamics of Fields and Particles.- Index.
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