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Elementary Approach to Special Relativity

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Authors:
  1. Helmut Günther

    1. Berlin, Germany

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  • Presents an alternative representation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity for easier comprehension
  • Includes examples and problems for a better understanding
  • Written for students and researchers in the field

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Discovery of the Ether

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    Pages 1-4

  3. The Ether and the Wave Equation

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    Pages 5-12

  4. The Physical Elements of the Special Theory of Relativity

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    Pages 13-18

  5. Where Does the Wave Equation Come From?

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    Pages 19-37

  6. The Wave Equation and the Third Axiom

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    Pages 39-47

  7. Lattice and the Continuum

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    Pages 49-56

  8. The Crystalline Solid—Dislocations

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    Pages 57-66

  9. The sine-Gordon Equation of a Dislocation

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    Pages 67-79

  10. Natural Measuring-Rods and Clocks

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    Pages 81-89

  11. Measuring-Rods and Clocks in Motion

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    Pages 91-105

  12. A Clock Paradox

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    Pages 107-109

  13. The Measurement of the Critical Velocity

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    Pages 111-131

  14. The Lorentz Transformation

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    Pages 133-135

  15. The Linear Approximation of Special Relativity

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    Pages 137-139

  16. The Principle of Relativity: The Lost Crystal

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    Pages 141-151

  17. Two Axiomatic Systems for Special Relativity

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    Pages 153-165

  18. The Twin Paradox

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    Pages 167-196

  19. The Doppler Effect

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    Pages 197-213

  20. Aberration

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    Pages 215-218
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About this book

This book presents an alternative representation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, which makes Special Relativity much more comprehensible. Moreover, one will come across a fundamental relationship between the Special Theory of Relativity and the mechanics of space lattice. In all previous formulations, the Einsteinian special principle of relativity, in one or the other form is used as the starting point for Special Relativity. In correspondence to this principle, one takes it as granted apriori, that all observers independent of their uniform motion to each other measure one and the same propagation velocity of a light signal.  This book is thought of as a lecture for physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists and concentrates on the students of these fields. The book should reach a broad circle of interested readers from the fields of natural sciences and philosophy and provide and invigorating experience for engineers.

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  • Berlin, Germany

    Helmut Günther

About the author

Helmut Günther was professor at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences for Mathematics and Physics until 2005 and currently teaches relativity theory at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

 

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