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Special Relativity

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The book is divided into two sections, an introductory text and a more advanced text. Both texts cover the same topics. Undergraduates might compare their curriculum with the text and study appropriately.

Introductory text

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Introduction

Principle of Relativity

Spacetime

Simultaneity, time dilation and length contraction

Dynamics

Aether

Faster than light signals, causality and Special Relativity


Advanced text

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Mathematical transformations

Waves

Relativistic dynamics

Mathematical approach

Problems

Appendices

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Further Information

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