Introduction To Spacetime A First Course On Relativity

Download or read book Introduction To Spacetime: A First Course On Relativity written by Bertel Laurent and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995-01-16 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of relativity is tackled directly in this book, dispensing with the need to establish the insufficiency of Newtonian mechanics. This book takes advantage from the start of the geometrical nature of the relativity theory. The reader is assumed to be familiar with vector calculus in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space.