The Resource Discovering relativity for yourself, with some help from Sam Lilley
Discovering relativity for yourself, with some help from Sam Lilley
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The item Discovering relativity for yourself, with some help from Sam Lilley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 425 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- Getting started
- Rough and ready relativity
- The dilation of time
- Three clocks and a pair of twins
- Starting again
- Space-time diagrams
- Time and distance 'over there'
- Co-ordinate systems
- Combining speeds
- Causality and the speed of light
- The nature of spacetime
- Interval
- Old friends revisited
- The scales of the spacetime diagram
- The radar point of view
- Relations between the radar and time-distance systems
- Constant acceleration
- Dynamics-mass, momentum, force
- The mass-energy relation
- The effect of acceleration on time measurement
- Time as experienced by a constant acceleration traveller
- Time and distance measurements of a constant acceleration observer
- The Principle of Equivalence
- The metric
- Introducing geodesics
- How to find ordinary geodesics
- Inverse square law gravity
- Curved spacetime
- The metric around the Sun
- Light and gravity
- The scandal about Mercury
- How Einstein did it
- A few conclusions
- Isbn
- 9780521297806
- Label
- Discovering relativity for yourself
- Title
- Discovering relativity for yourself
- Statement of responsibility
- with some help from Sam Lilley
- Language
- eng
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lilley, Sam
- Dewey number
- 530.1/1
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QC173.55
- LC item number
- .L54
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Relativity (Physics)
- Relatividade E Gravitacao
- Relatividad (Física)
- Relativiteitstheorie
- Relativitätstheorie
- Label
- Discovering relativity for yourself, with some help from Sam Lilley
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Getting started -- Rough and ready relativity -- The dilation of time -- Three clocks and a pair of twins -- Starting again -- Space-time diagrams -- Time and distance 'over there' -- Co-ordinate systems -- Combining speeds -- Causality and the speed of light -- The nature of spacetime -- Interval -- Old friends revisited -- The scales of the spacetime diagram -- The radar point of view -- Relations between the radar and time-distance systems -- Constant acceleration -- Dynamics-mass, momentum, force -- The mass-energy relation -- The effect of acceleration on time measurement -- Time as experienced by a constant acceleration traveller -- Time and distance measurements of a constant acceleration observer -- The Principle of Equivalence -- The metric -- Introducing geodesics -- How to find ordinary geodesics -- Inverse square law gravity -- Curved spacetime -- The metric around the Sun -- Light and gravity -- The scandal about Mercury -- How Einstein did it -- A few conclusions
- Control code
- 6331774
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 425 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521297806
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 80040263
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (WaOLN)86614
- (OCoLC)6331774
- Label
- Discovering relativity for yourself, with some help from Sam Lilley
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Getting started -- Rough and ready relativity -- The dilation of time -- Three clocks and a pair of twins -- Starting again -- Space-time diagrams -- Time and distance 'over there' -- Co-ordinate systems -- Combining speeds -- Causality and the speed of light -- The nature of spacetime -- Interval -- Old friends revisited -- The scales of the spacetime diagram -- The radar point of view -- Relations between the radar and time-distance systems -- Constant acceleration -- Dynamics-mass, momentum, force -- The mass-energy relation -- The effect of acceleration on time measurement -- Time as experienced by a constant acceleration traveller -- Time and distance measurements of a constant acceleration observer -- The Principle of Equivalence -- The metric -- Introducing geodesics -- How to find ordinary geodesics -- Inverse square law gravity -- Curved spacetime -- The metric around the Sun -- Light and gravity -- The scandal about Mercury -- How Einstein did it -- A few conclusions
- Control code
- 6331774
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 425 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521297806
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 80040263
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (WaOLN)86614
- (OCoLC)6331774
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