Spacetime physics [by] Edwin F. Taylor [and] John Archibald Wheeler.
Material type: TextSeries: A Series of books in physicsPublication details: San Francisco, W. H. Freeman [1966]Description: 208 p. illus., ports. 27 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 530.11
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(Ch. 1) Geometry of spacetime. Parable of the surveyors -- Inertial reference frame -- Principle of relativity -- Coordinates of an event -- Invariance of the interval -- The spacetime diagram; world lines -- Regions of spacetime -- The Lorentz transformation -- The velocity parameter -- (ch. 2) Momentum and energy. Introduction; momentum and energy in units of mass -- Momentum -- The momentum-energy 4-vector -- The equivalence of energy and rest mass -- (ch. 3) Physics of curved spacetime.