Its About Time: Understanding Einstein`s Relativity - Couverture rigide

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Mermin, N. David

 
9780691122014: Its About Time: Understanding Einstein`s Relativity
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ISBN 10 : 0691122016 ISBN 13 : 9780691122014
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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. The book evolved as Mermin taught the subject to diverse groups of undergraduates at Cornell University, none of them science majors, over three and a half decades. Mermin's approach is imaginative, yet accurate and complete. Clear, lively, and informal, the book will appeal to intellectually curious readers of all kinds, including even professional physicists, who will be intrigued by its highly original approach.

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À propos de l'auteur

N. David Mermin is a theoretical physicist who has worked in solid state physics, low temperature physics, statistical physics, crystallography, and foundations of quantum mechanics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and won the first Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical society for "his remarkable clarity and wit as a lecturer to nonspecialists on difficult subjects." His books include "Solid State Physics, Boojums All the Way Through", and "Space and Time in Special Relativity".

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691122016
ISBN 13 
9780691122014
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
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ISBN 10 :  0691141274 ISBN 13 :  9780691141275
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2009
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