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Today, Relativity is becoming an integrated aspect of engineering
fields. Its application to the Global Positioning System (GPS),
extends in usage from smart watches to the navigation of cars,
airplanes (drones) and even autonomous tractors. In rather
expensive particle accelerators, physicists are everyday 'playing'
with Relativistic Billiards, common to the betatrons of cancer
therapy using electrons. Computer programs, such as 'ray tracing'
methods, are enhanced to simulate objects in relativistic motion,
which now offer us relativistic visualizations of accretion disks
around compact, astrophysical objects like Black Holes.Against the
backdrop of the applications explained throughout the chapters,
this book takes on a practical and intuitive approach in
introducing the Lorentz invariance of light propagation and
space-time concepts. The book begins with simple mathematics, like
the classical Pythagoras formula for energy-momentum 'triangles'.
Later, readers will find the intuitive vector calculus reemerging
in the expansion of full relativistic expressions. Prepared with
instructive diagrams of recent experiments, even the layperson can
grasp the essential study of Relativity and marvel at its
applications within this book.
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