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Special relativity

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Special relativity/ James Read.
Author:	Read, James,
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press, : 2023.,
Description:	102 p. :ill., digital ; : 23 cm.;
Notes:	Also issued in print: 2023.
Subject:	Special relativity (Physics) - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009300599
ISBN:	9781009300599

Special relativity
Read, James,1991-

Special relativity[electronic resource] /James Read. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2023. - 102 p. :ill., digital ;23 cm. - Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of physics,2632-413X. - Cambridge elements.Elements in the philosophy of physics..

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references.

This Element presents the philosophy of special relativity, from the foundations of the theory in Newtonian mechanics, through its birth out of the ashes of nineteenth-century ether theory, through the various conceptual paradoxes which the theory presents, and finally arriving at some of its connections with Einstein's later theory of general relativity. It illustrates concepts such as inertial frames, force-free motion, dynamical versus geometrical understandings of physics, the standard hierarchy of classical spacetimes, and symmetries of a physical theory; it also discusses specific topics in the foundations of special relativity such as Einstein's 1905 derivation of the Lorentz transformations, the conventionality of simultaneity, the status of frame-dependent effects, and the twin paradox.

Specialized.

ISBN: 9781009300599

Standard No.: 10.1017/9781009300599doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1443708
Special relativity (Physics)
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: QC173.65 / .R4 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 530.11

Special relativity
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