Special Relativity

New York: W.W. Norton & Co. , 1968. Second Edition. Large octavo with dark grey boards and silver stamping in red and yellow jacket; x, 286 pages: illustrations; index; 24 cm Very good (+); boards very slightly edgeworn; book block a wee bit damp rippled in first 25 pages; jacket is very good (-) with small chips to upper edge and head/foot of spine; light rubbing and sunning; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780171770759, 9780171760767

Part of the M.I.T. Introductory Physics Series. The book opens with a description of the smooth transition from Newtonian to Einsteinian behaviour from electrons as their energy is progressively increased, and this leads directly to the relativistic expressions for mass, momentum and energy of a particle.Contents: Departures from Newtonian dynamics. Perplexities in the propagation of light. Einstein and the Lorentz-Einstein transformations. Relativity and the measurement of lengths and time intervals. Relativistic kinematics. Relativistic dynamics. collisions and conservation laws. More about relativistic dynamics. Relativity and electricity.