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Relativity For Physics Students

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Relativity For Physics Students
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Publisher: Methuen & Company
Number of pages: 166

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Contents: The origins of the theory; Michelson-Morley experiment and the Lorentz transformation; Laws of motion and electro-magnetism; Restricted principle of relativity and some consequences; Equivalence hypothesis; Four-dimensional continuum; General theory.

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