Special Relativity in General Frames From Particles to Astrophysics /

• Main Author: Gourgoulhon, <U+00c9>ric. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematics.; Particle acceleration.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Applications of Mathematics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37276-6

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Table of Contents:

• Minkowski Spacetime
• Worldlines and Proper Time
• Observers
• Kinematics 1: Motion with Respect to an Observer
• Kinematics 2: Change of Observer
• Lorentz Group
• Lorentz Group as a Lie Group
• Inertial Observers and Poincar ̌Group
• Energy and Momentum
• Angular Momentum
• Principle of Least Action
• Accelerated Observers
• Rotating Observers
• Tensors and Alternate Forms
• Fields on Spacetime
• Integration in Spacetime
• Electromagnetic Field
• Maxwell Equations
• Energy-Momentum Tensor
• Energy-Momentum of the Electromagnetic Field
• Relativistic Hydrodynamics
• What about Relativistic Gravitation?
• A Basic Algebra
• B Web Pages
• C Special Relativity Books.