Product details
ISBN
9781848310575
Published
2009-02-05
Edition
3. edition
Publisher
Icon Books
Weight
159 gr
Height
168 mm
Width
118 mm
Thickness
13 mm
Age
U, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
176
Author
Edited by
Biographical note
Bruce Bassett is a cosmologist and lecturer at the University of Cape Town and the South African Astronomical Observatory.Ralph Edney trained as a mathematician, and has worked as a teacher, journalist, illustrator and political cartoonist. He has illustrated a number of Introducing titles.
A superlative, fascinating graphic account of Albert Einstein's strange world and how his legacy has been built upon since.
It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the universe. Beginning near the speed of light and proceeding to explorations of space-time and curved spaces, Introducing Relativity plots a visually accessible course through the thought experiments that have given shape to contemporary physics.
Scientists from Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking add their unique contributions to this story, as we encounter Einstein's astounding vision of gravity as the curvature of space-time and arrive at the breathtakingly beautiful field equations. Einstein's legacy is reviewed in the most advanced frontiers of physics today - black holes, gravitational waves, the accelerating universe and string theory.
Scientists from Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking add their unique contributions to this story, as we encounter Einstein's astounding vision of gravity as the curvature of space-time and arrive at the breathtakingly beautiful field equations. Einstein's legacy is reviewed in the most advanced frontiers of physics today - black holes, gravitational waves, the accelerating universe and string theory.
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It is more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the universe. Beginning near the speed of light and proceeding to explorations of space-time and curved spaces, this work takes readers through the thought experiments that have given shape to contemporary physics.
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Product details
ISBN
9781848310575
Published
2009-02-05
Edition
3. edition
Publisher
Icon Books
Weight
159 gr
Height
168 mm
Width
118 mm
Thickness
13 mm
Age
U, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
176
Author
Edited by
Biographical note
Bruce Bassett is a cosmologist and lecturer at the University of Cape Town and the South African Astronomical Observatory.Ralph Edney trained as a mathematician, and has worked as a teacher, journalist, illustrator and political cartoonist. He has illustrated a number of Introducing titles.