Review
By Hanno Essen (Stockholm Sweden)
This material of this book was successfully used in a course of special relativity for advanced undergraduates at the University of Stockholm by the late professor Bertel Laurent, one of Oskar Klein's best students. When he sadly passed away shortly before retirement the manuscript was transformed into a book by his enthusiastic friend Stig Flodmark.
The book is unusual in that it does not discuss the historical, philosophical, and experimental background that most book dwell on a lot. Instead special relativity is clearly and simply presented with modern coordinate free (index free) notation as a correct and accepted theory of physics. I recommend it strongly as a concise, pedagogical, and compact course book with a modern point of view.
Contents
I PRINCIPLES. BASIC APPLICATIONS
1 Clocks and Acceleration
1.1 Measuring Time
1.2 Measuring Acceleration
1.3 The Principle of the Maximal Proper Time
1.4 Events. Space-Time
1.5 Parallel World Lines
2 Vector Algebra
2.1 Basic Properties
2.2 Scalar Product
3 Vector Characteristics
3.1 Timelike. Spacelike. Null-like
3.2 Comparison with Euclidean Space
4 Simultaneity and Space Distance
4.1 Simultaneity
4.2 Space Distance
4.3 The Orthogonal Space
5 Linear Independence
6 Relative Velocity and Four-Velocity
6.1 The Standard Velocity Split
6.2 Light Signals
6.3 Split of Null-Like Vectors
6.4 The Future and the Past
7 Two-Dimensional Spacetime
7.1 Lorenta Transfor Read more... Categories
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Review
By Hanno Essen (Stockholm Sweden)
This material of this book was successfully used in a course of special relativity for advanced undergraduates at the University of Stockholm by the late professor Bertel Laurent, one of Oskar Klein's best students. When he sadly passed away shortly before retirement the manuscript was transformed into a book by his enthusiastic friend Stig Flodmark.
The book is unusual in that it does not discuss the historical, philosophical, and experimental background that most book dwell on a lot. Instead special relativity is clearly and simply presented with modern coordinate free (index free) notation as a correct and accepted theory of physics. I recommend it strongly as a concise, pedagogical, and compact course book with a modern point of view.
Contents
I PRINCIPLES. BASIC APPLICATIONS
1 Clocks and Acceleration
1.1 Measuring Time
1.2 Measuring Acceleration
1.3 The Principle of the Maximal Proper Time
1.4 Events. Space-Time
1.5 Parallel World Lines
2 Vector Algebra
2.1 Basic Properties
2.2 Scalar Product
3 Vector Characteristics
3.1 Timelike. Spacelike. Null-like
3.2 Comparison with Euclidean Space
4 Simultaneity and Space Distance
4.1 Simultaneity
4.2 Space Distance
4.3 The Orthogonal Space
5 Linear Independence
6 Relative Velocity and Four-Velocity
6.1 The Standard Velocity Split
6.2 Light Signals
6.3 Split of Null-Like Vectors
6.4 The Future and the Past
7 Two-Dimensional Spacetime
7.1 Lorenta Transfor Read more... Full download