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1 | Classical Physics | 1 |
1.1 | What Is Classical Physics? | 1 |
1.2 | Newtonian Mechanics | 5 |
1.3 | Gravity | 15 |
1.4 | Maxwell's Electromagnetism | 17 |
1.5 | The Wave Model Of Light | 22 |
1.6 | A Summary Of Classical Physics To 1900 | 27 |
2 | Problems with Space and Time | 34 |
2.1 | Problems Of Motion And Change | 35 |
2.2 | The Problem Of The Ether | 38 |
2.3 | The Michelson-Morley Experiment | 43 |
2.4 | The Principle Of Relativity | 47 |
2.5 | Time Dilation | 50 |
2.6 | The Time Dilation Formula | 54 |
2.7 | Testing Time Dilation | 57 |
2.8 | Length Contraction | 62 |
2.9 | The Relativity Of Simultaneity | 67 |
2.10 | Synchronization Errors And Corrections | 71 |
2.11 | Relativistic Velocity Addition | 74 |
2.12 | Relativistic Mass | 81 |
2.13 | Mass And Energy | 86 |
2.14 | Mass Energy And Momentum | 95 |
2.15 | Mass Energy And Particle Physics | 100 |
2.16 | The Twin Paradox, A First Look | 105 |
2.17 | The Lorentz Transformation | 109 |
2.18 | Using The Lorentz Transformation | 115 |
2.19 | Summary Of Ideas And Equations In Chapter 2 | 120 |
2.20 | Problems | 121 |
3 | Spacetime | 130 |
3.1 | The Geometry Of Space And Time | 131 |
3.2 | Spacetime Diagrams | 136 |
3.3 | Special Relativity And Geometry | 139 |
3.4 | Relativity And Geometry | 148 |
3.5 | Velocity Momentum And Energy | 158 |
3.6 | Spacetime Mechanics | 162 |
3.7 | Examples From Particle Physics | 168 |
3.8 | Summary Of Ideas And Equations In Chapter 3 | 173 |
3.9 | Problems | 174 |
4 | General Relativity and Cosmology | 184 |
4.1 | Inertial Forces | 185 |
4.2 | The Equivalence Principle | 188 |
4.3 | Gravity And Light | 193 |
4.4 | Gravity And Time | 199 |
4.5 | The Geometry Of Curvature | 207 |
4.6 | Gravity And Geometry | 214 |
4.7 | Non-Euclidean Geometry | 221 |
4.8 | The General Theory | 223 |
4.9 | The Geometry Of The Universe | 228 |
4.10 | Black Holes | 239 |
4.11 | Gravitational Waves | 248 |
4.12 | Summary Of Ideas And Equations In Chapter 4 | 256 |
4.13 | Problems | 258 |
5 | Appendix | 265 |
5.1 | Relativity And Electromagnetism | 265 |
5.2 | Radiation Pressure | 267 |
5.3 | Solutions | 268 |
Further Reading | 274 | |
Index | 276 |
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