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This textbook develops Special Relativity in a systematic way and offers the unique feature of having more than 200 problems with detailed solutions to empower students to gain a real understanding of this core subject in physics. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and has new sections on relativistic fluids, relativistic kinematics and on four-acceleration. The problems and solution section has been significantly expanded and short history sections have been included throughout the book.
The approach is structural in the sense that it develops Special Relativity in Minkowski space following the parallel steps as the development of Newtonian Physics in Euclidian space. A second characteristic of the book is that it discusses the mathematics of the theory independently of the physical principles, so that the reader will appreciate their role in the development of the physical theory.
Table of contents
Mathematical Part
The Structure of the Theories of Physics
Newtonian Physics
The Foundation of Special Relativity
The Physics of the Position Four-Vector
Relativistic Kinematics
Tsamparlis, Michael
Four-Acceleration
Paradoxes
Mass: Four-Momentum
Relativistic Reactions
Four-Force
Irreducible Decompositions
The Electromagnetic Field
Relativistic Angular Momentum
The Covariant Lorentz Transformation
Null Triads and Proper Lorentz Transformation
Geometric Description of Relativistic Interactions
Waves in Special Relativity
The Physical System Continuum
The Physics of Newtonian Deformable Bodies: Newtonian Fluids
The Stress: Strain Relation for Elastic Newtonian Deformable Bodies
Newtonian Fluids
Relativistic Fluids in Special Relativity