It's About Time

Understanding Einstein's Relativity

N. David Mermin

256 pages, parution le 23/11/2005

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This readable and complete exposition of the nature of time as addressed in Einstein's special theory of relativity is accessible to readers without training in the sciences. Published on the 100th anniversary of Einstein's famous 1905 paper, it assumes only competency in simple high school algebra and a bit of elementary plane geometry.

The premise of the book is that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education because 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.

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.

L'auteur - N. David Mermin

N. David Mermin est un physicien théorique, membre de l'Académie nationale des sciences, qui a remporté le premier prix Julius Edgar Lilienfeld de la société américaine de physique pour "sa remarquable clarté et son esprit de conférencier auprès de non-spécialistes sur des sujets difficiles".

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Sommaire

The Principle of Relativity
Combining (Small)Velocities
The Speed of Light
Combining (Any)Velocities
Simultaneous Events;Synchronized Clocks
Moving Clocks Run Slowly;Moving Sticks Shrink
Looking At a Moving Clock
The Interval between Events
Trains of Rockets
Space-Time Geometry
E = Mc²
A Bit about General Relativity
What Makes It Happen?

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Éditeur(s)	Princeton University Press
Auteur(s)	N. David Mermin
Parution	23/11/2005
Nb. de pages	256
Format	16 x 24,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	420g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780691122014
ISBN13	978-0-691-12201-4