It's about time: understanding Einstein's relativity

By:

Mermin, N. David

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton University Press Princeton 2021Description: xv, 192 pISBN:

9780691218779

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

530.11 MER

Summary: In It's About Time, N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that the real nature of time discovered by Einstein can be rigorously explained without advanced mathematics. This readable exposition of the nature of time as addressed in Einstein's theory of relativity is accessible to anyone who remembers a little high school algebra and elementary plane geometry.

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Table of Content:

The principle of relativity
Combining (small) velocities
The speed of light
Combining (any) velocities
Simultaneous events; synchronized clocks
Moving clocks run slowly; moving sticks shrink
Looking at a moving clock
The interval between events
Trains of rockets
Space-time geometry
E = Mc²
A bit about general relativity
What makes it happen?

In It's About Time, N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that the real nature of time discovered by Einstein can be rigorously explained without advanced mathematics. This readable exposition of the nature of time as addressed in Einstein's theory of relativity is accessible to anyone who remembers a little high school algebra and elementary plane geometry.

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