This book explores the use of waves on strings and sound waves to illustrate the behaviour of waves. It shows how Albert Einstein overturned Newtonian physics and predicted startling new effects such as time dilation and length contraction for objects travelling at close to the speed of light.
Edited by:
A Norton Imprint: CRC Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 280mm,
Width: 210mm,
Weight: 453g ISBN:9781138458178 ISBN 10: 1138458171 Pages: 272 Publication Date:02 October 2019 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction -- Chapter I Fields that vary with time -- Chapter 2 Waves and electrom agnetic radiation -- Chapter 3 Optics and optical instruments -- Chapter 4 Special relativity -- Chapter 5 Consolidation and skills development -- Answers and comments -- Acknowledgements -- Index.