Relativity category: 254 books
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory
The Theoretical Minimum
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A funny, insightful, and self-contained guide to Einstein's relativity theory and classical field theories--including electromagnetism
Physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's classical...
Where the Universe Came From
How Einsteins relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
How did it all begin? Where is it all going?
WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS
A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned...
Relativity
The Special and the General Theory - 100th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A handsome annotated edition of Einstein’s celebrated book on relativity
After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote Relativity. Intended for a popular audience, the book remains one of the most lucid explanations of the special...
by Banesh Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
In this fascinating, accessible introduction to one of the most revolutionary developments in modern physics, Einstein scholar Banesh Hoffmann recounts the successive insights that led to both the special and general theories of relativity.Using simple examples from everyday life, the author presents...
The Meaning of Relativity
Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field - Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left Europe permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein visited Princeton University, where he delivered the Stafford Little Lectures for that year. These...
by Joel Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Aimed at advanced undergraduates with background knowledge of classical mechanics and electricity and magnetism, this textbook presents both the particle dynamics relevant to general relativity, and the field dynamics necessary to understand the theory. Focusing on action extremization, the book develops...
by James H. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
By the year 1900, most of physics seemed to be encompassed in the two great theories of Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. Unfortunately, there were inconsistencies between the two theories that seemed irreconcilable. Although many physicists struggled with the problem,...
by Ray Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
An ideal choice for undergraduate students of science and engineering, this book presents a thorough exploration of the basic concepts of relativity. The treatment provides more than the typical coverage of introductory texts, and it offers maximum flexibility since many sections may be used independently,...
by Scott Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
In the grand tradition of the previous volume of this devastating series, further arguments against the validity of special relativity are presented, this time by demolishing the experimental “evidence” of the long-lived muons. Also, an experimental method to disprove the relativity of simultaneity...
by Badis Ydri
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The physical interpretation of the mathematical descriptions of general relativity gives rise to a range of exciting consequences in cosmology. An understanding of general relativity is therefore a prerequisite for students wishing to pursue further courses or research projects in cosmology and its...
by Scott Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
In this short but devastating book, several glaring inconsistencies in Einstein's celebrated theory are revealed and explored, inconsistencies that doom relativity to an ignoble death.
When the dust settles from relativity's implosion, the author points to where an alternative theory might...
by Richard Wolfson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
With this reader-friendly book, it doesn't take an Einstein to understand the theory of relativity and its remarkable consequences.
In clear, understandable terms, physicist Richard Wolfson explores the ideas at the heart of relativity and shows how they lead to such seeming absurdities as...
Challenging the Unchallengeable
Einstein’S Theory of Special Relativity
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
John D. Frey leads readers on a fascinating journey in this book that seeks to prove that Albert Einsteins theory of special relativity is all wrong.
He begins by sharing an overview of special relativity, including its history, principles, and how these principles bring about time dilation...
Beyond the World of Relativity to the World of Invariance
A Journey of Discovery into the Realm of Absolute Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
James Clerk Maxwell turned the scientific world upside down in the late nineteenth century with his theory of electromagnetism, which predicted that an electromagnetic wave would propagate in vacuum with a constant speed.
His prediction was at odds with classical mechanics, and some scientists...