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Concise and practical, this text by a renowned teacher sketches the mathematical background essential to understanding the fundamentals of relativity theory. Subjects include the velocity of light, measurement of time and distance, and properties of mass and momentum, with numerous diagrams, formulas, and examples, plus exercises and solutions. 1960 edition.
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This Dover edition is an unabridged reprint of the Harper Torchbooks edition, published in 1960 by Harper & Row. The work was originally published by G. Bell & Sons (London) in 1926. After an introduction by the renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, the special theory of relativity is explained, with a minimal amount of mathematical complexity. The gen
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