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by R. K. Pathria
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ISBN: 0486428192 Dover Publications Price: $19.95 |
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This graduate-level text extends beyond mathematical derivations to elaborate on physical ideas underlying relativity, with a historical introduction and examinations of special theory (space-time transformations, four-dimensional formulations, mechanics, optics, electromagnetism), and general theory (space-time continuum, gravitation, experiments, and relativistic cosmology). 1974 edition.
Unabridged republication of the second edition published by Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1974.
Table of Contents for The Theory of Relativity
| Historical Introduction. | |||||||
| Part 1. The Special Theory: | |||||||
| 1. Space-Time Transformations | |||||||
| 2. Four-Dimensional Formulation of the Theory | |||||||
| 3. Mechanics. | |||||||
| 4. Optics. | |||||||
| 5. Electromagnetism. | |||||||
| Part 2. The General Theory: | |||||||
| 6. General Transformations in the Space-Time Continuum. | |||||||
| 7. Geometrization of Gravitation. | |||||||
| 8. Experimental Tests of Einstein's Theory of Gravitation. | |||||||
| 9. Relativistic Cosmology. | |||||||
| Appendixes. Differential Geometry of a Curved Surface. |