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Spacetime Physics

Spacetime Physics embodies what the authors had learned during an additional quarter century of teaching and research. They updated the text to reflect the immense strides in physics during the same period and modernized and increased the number of exercises, for which the First Edition was famous. Enrichment boxes provide expanded coverage of intriguing topics. Sample problems encourage students to exercise their newfound power.

RelativityPhysics
Author
Edwin F. Taylor & John Archibald Wheeler
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY
Language
EN
Category
Basic Sciences
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Contents· 107 sections
  1. 01: Spacetime Overview
  2. 1.01: Parable of the Surveyors
  3. 1.02: Surveying Spacetime
  4. 1.03: Events and Intervals Alone
  5. 1.04: Same Unit for Space and Time- Meter Second Minute or Year
  6. 1.05: Unity of Spacetime
  7. 1.06: End of Chapter
  8. 1.E: Spacetime (Exercises)
  9. 02: Floating Free
  10. 2.01: Floating to Moon
  11. 2.02: The Inertial (Free-float) Frame
  12. 2.03: Local Character of Free-float Frame
  13. 2.04: Regions of Spacetime
  14. 2.05: Test Particle
  15. 2.06: Locating Events With a Latticework of Clocks
  16. 2.07: Observer
  17. 2.08: Measuring Particle Speed
  18. 2.09: Rocket Frame
  19. 2.10: End of Chapter
  20. 2.E: Floating Free (Exercises)
  21. 2.S: Floating Free (Summary)
  22. 03: Same Laws for All
  23. 3.01: The Principle of Relativity
  24. 3.02: What Is Not the Same in Different Frames
  25. 3.03: What Is the Same in Different Frames
  26. 3.04: Relativity of Simultaneity
  27. 3.05: Lorentz Contraction of Length
  28. 3.06: Invariance of Transverse Dimension
  29. 3.07: Invariance of the Interval Proved
  30. 3.08: Invariance of the Interval for All Free-float Frames
  31. 3.09: End of Chapter
  32. 3.E: Same Laws for All (Exercises)
  33. 3.S: Same Laws for All (Summary)
  34. 04: Trip to Canopus
  35. 4.01: Invitation To Canopus
  36. 4.02: Stripped-down Free-float Frame
  37. 4.03: Faster Than Light
  38. 4.04: All of Space Is Ours
  39. 4.05: Flight Plan
  40. 4.06: Twin Paradox
  41. 4.07: Lorentz Contraction
  42. 4.08: Time Traveler
  43. 4.09: Relativity of Simultaneity
  44. 4.10: Experimental Evidence
  45. 4.11: End of Chapter
  46. 4.E: Trip to Canopus (Exercises)
  47. 05: Trekking through Spacetime
  48. 5.01: Time No. Spacetime Map Yes.
  49. 5.02: Same Events Different Free-float Frames
  50. 5.03: Invariant Hyperbola
  51. 5.04: Worldline
  52. 5.05: Length Along a Path
  53. 5.06: Wristwatch Time Along a Worldline
  54. 5.07: Kinked Worldline
  55. 5.08: Stretch Factor
  56. 5.09: Touring Spacetime Without a Reference Frame
  57. 5.10: End of Chapter
  58. 5.E: Trekking through Spacetime (Exercises)
  59. 5.S: Trekking through Spacetime (Summary)
  60. 06: Regions of Spacetime
  61. 6.01: Light Speed- Limit on Casualty
  62. 6.02: Relation Between Events- Timelike Spacelike or Lightlike
  63. 6.03: Light Cone- Partition in Spacetime
  64. 6.E: Regions of Spacetime (Exercises)
  65. 07: Momenergy
  66. 7.01: Momenergy- Total Conserved in a Collision
  67. 7.02: Momenergy Arrow
  68. 7.03: Momenergy Components and Magnitude
  69. 7.04: Momentum- Space Part of Momenergy
  70. 7.05: Energy- Time Part of Momenergy
  71. 7.06: Conservation of Momenergy and Its Consequences
  72. 7.07: Momenergy (Summary)
  73. 7.08: End of Chapter
  74. 7.E: Momenergy (Exercises)
  75. 08: Collide. Create. Annihilate.
  76. 8.01: The System
  77. 8.02: Three Modest Experiments
  78. 8.03: Mass of a System of Particles
  79. 8.04: Energy Without Mass- Photon
  80. 8.05: Photon Used to Create Mass
  81. 8.06: Photon Used to Create Mass
  82. 8.07: Converting Mass to Usable Energy- Fission Fusion Annihilation
  83. 8.08: End of Chapter
  84. 8.E: Collide. Create. Annihilate. (Exercises)
  85. 8.S: Collide. Create. Annihilate. (Summary)
  86. 09: Gravity - Curved Spacetime in Action
  87. 9.01: Gravity in Brief
  88. 9.02: Galileo Newton and Einstein
  89. 9.03: Local Moving Orders for Mass
  90. 9.04: Spacetime Curvature
  91. 9.05: Parable of the Two Travelers
  92. 9.06: Gravitation as Curvature of Spacetime
  93. 9.07: Gravity Waves
  94. 9.08: Black Hole
  95. 9.09: The Cosmos
  96. 10: Answers
  97. 10.01: Answers to Odd-numbered Exercises
  98. 11: Special Topic - Lorentz Transformation
  99. 11.01: Lorentz Transformation- Useful or Not
  100. 11.02: Faster Than Light
  101. 11.03: First Steps
  102. 11.04: Form of the Lorentz Transformation
  103. 11.05: Completing the Derivation
  104. 11.06: Inverse Lorentz Transformation
  105. 11.07: Addition of Velocities
  106. 11.08: Summary
  107. 11.09: Problems