Six not-so-easy pieces : Einstein's relativity, symmetry, and space-time
Publication Information
New York : Basic Books, c1997.
Physical Description
xxvii, 152 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents
- Publisher's note
- Introduction by Roger Penrose
- Special preface
- Feynman's preface-- Vectors:
- Symmetry in physics
- Translations
- Rotations
- Vectors
- Vector algebra
- Newton's laws in vector notation
- Scalar product of vectors
- Symmetry in physical laws: Symmetry operations
- Symmetry in space and time
- Symmetry and conservation laws
- Mirror reflections
- Polar and axial vectors
- Which hand is right?
- Parity is not conserved!
- Antimatter
- Broken symmetries
- Special theory of relativity: Principle of relativity
- Lorentz transformation
- Michelson-morley experiment
- Transformation of time
- Lorentz contraction
- Simultaneity
- Four-vectors
- Relativistic dynamics
- Equivalence of mass and energy
- Relativistic energy and momentum: Relativity and the philosophers
- Twin paradox
- Transformation of velocities
- Relativistic mass
- Relativistic energy
- Space-time: Geometry of space-time
- Space-time intervals
- Past, present, and future
- More about four-vectors
- Four-vector algebra
- Curved space: Curved spaces with two dimensions
- Curvature in three-dimensional space
- Our space is curved
- Geometry in space-time
- Gravity and the principle of equivalence
- Speed of clocks in a gravitational field
- Curvature of space-time
- Motion in curved space-time
- Einstein's theory of gravitation
- Index
- About Richard Feynman.