Understanding Relativity
Understanding Relativity This book bridges the huge gap between popular science and mathematical treatments of Einstein's theories. The explanations are entirely non-mathematical, using many color…
Specifikacia Understanding Relativity
Understanding Relativity
This book bridges the huge gap between popular science and mathematical treatments of Einstein's theories. The explanations are entirely non-mathematical, using many color pictures and clear concepts. It explains special and general relativity, gravity, black holes, and gravitational waves, also presenting current ideas about dark matter and dark energy.
By providing a complete description in terms of concepts and pictures, the book answers many questions about why the theory works as it does. In this way, the reader is led to a much deeper understanding than any popular science book can provide.The author has written this book for everyone who wants to go beyond superficial descriptions of relativity's remarkable phenomena, but is not equipped to read the professional literature and complicated math behind the theory. For example, it explains why and how momentum and