Skip to main content
Elsevier
View Cart
Your Account

Books in Relativity

BooksJournals

Special Relativity

  • 1st Edition
  • May 5, 2017
  • Sadri Hassani
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 0 4 1 1 - 8
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 0 4 2 4 - 8
Special Relativity: A Heuristic Approach provides a qualitative exposition of relativity theory on the basis of the constancy of the speed of light. Using Einstein's signal velocity as the defining idea for the notion of simultaneity and the fact that the speed of light is independent of the motion of its source, chapters delve into a qualitative exposition of the relativity of time and length, discuss the time dilation formula using the standard light clock, explore the Minkowski four-dimensional space-time distance based on how the time dilation formula is derived, and define the components of the two-dimensional space-time velocity, amongst other topics.

Geometry of Classical Fields

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 154
  • August 30, 2011
  • E. Binz + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 8 7 2 6 5 - 0
This volume is an introduction to differential methods in physics. Part I contains a comprehensive presentation of the geometry of manifolds and Lie groups, including infinite dimensional settings. The differential geometric notions introduced in Part I are used in Part II to develop selected topics in field theory, from the basic principles up to the present state of the art. This second part is a systematic development of a covariant Hamiltonian formulation of field theory starting from the principle of stationary action.