Relativity for Everyone How Space-Time Bends /

This book, now in a revised and updated second edition, explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail without approaching Einstein's life or the historical background. The text is formulated in such a way that the reader will be able to understand the essence intuitively, and...

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Published in:Springer eBooks
Main Author: Fischer, Kurt (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:2nd ed. 2015.
Series:Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17891-2
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