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by Banesh Hoffmann
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ISBN: 0486406768 Dover Publications Price: $9.95 |
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Using simple examples from everyday life, an Einstein scholar offers entertaining, nontechnical demonstrations of the meaning of relativity theory. Starting with the geometrical and cosmological ideas of the ancient Greeks, he traces the theory's development from its basis in work by Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, and others. 1983 edition.
Table of Contents for Relativity and Its Roots
| CHAPTER 1 A Hint of What Is to Come | |||||||
| CHAPTER 2 The Path to Newton | |||||||
| CHAPTER 3 Newtonian Relativity | |||||||
| CHAPTER 4 The Optical Threat to Relativity | |||||||
| CHAPTER 5 The Special Theory of Relativity | |||||||
| CHAPTER 6 The General Theory of Relativity | |||||||
| INDEX |