How to teach relativity to your dog
| Main Author: | Orzel, Chad. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
c2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Relative dog motion : the description of motion
- Fake proofs and failed experiments : historical origins of relativity
- Time slows when you're chasing bunnies : relativistic time dilation
- Honey, I shrank the bunnies : length contraction
- Intervals and diagrams : an introduction to spacetime
- 299,792,458 m/s isn't just a good idea, it's the law : velocity, momentum, force, and the speed of light
- A dog is always in motion : E=mc²
- Looking for the Bacon Boson : E=mc² and particle physics
- Everything is relative in the magic closet : the equivalence principle
- Warping the universe : general relativity and black holes
- Everything runs away : general relativity and the expanding universe
- The unified theory of critters : unification of forces.