This book offers an essential bridge between college-level
introductions and advanced graduate-level books on special
relativity. It begins at an elementary level, presenting and
discussing the basic concepts normally covered in college-level
works, including the Lorentz transformation. Subsequent chapters
introduce the four-dimensional worldview implied by the Lorentz
transformations, mixing time and space coordinates, before
continuing on to the formalism of tensors, a topic usually avoided
in lower-level courses. The book's second half addresses a number
of essential points, including the concept of causality; the
equivalence between mass and energy, including applications;
relativistic optics; and measurements and matter in Minkowski
spacetime. The closing chapters focus on the energy-momentum tensor
of a continuous distribution of mass-energy and its covariant
conservation; angular momentum; a discussion of the scalar field of
perfect fluids and the Maxwell field; and general
coordinates.
Every chapter is supplemented by a section with numerous exercises,
allowing readers to practice the theory. These exercises constitute
an essential part of the textbook, and the solutions to
approximately half of them are provided in the appendix.
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