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- catalog abstract "Book developed over 15 years in the classroom, using primarily the math learned in first year high school algebra and has the science that popular books on Special Relativity omit.".
- catalog alternative "Relativity".
- catalog alternative "Serious but not ponderous book about relativity".
- catalog contributor b11900968.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "Book developed over 15 years in the classroom, using primarily the math learned in first year high school algebra and has the science that popular books on Special Relativity omit.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-224) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I. The detectives -- 1. "Questions that children are taught not to ask" -- 2. "Because it is so natural and simple" -- 3. Maxwell's conundrum -- 4. Einstein -- 5. Relativity, look-back time, and other confusions -- Part II. The phenomena -- 6. Clocks and meter sticks: What to keep and what to toss? -- Some corollaries -- 7. The phenomena: Time -- 8. The phenomena: Length and other kinds of distance -- 9. The phenomena: Invariance of space-time interval -- 10. The phenomena: Relativistic mass and the speed limit -- 11. The phenomena: Energy and its equivalence to mass -- 12. The Lorentz transformation -- 13. The phenomena: Bullet in the rocket -- Velocity addition -- 14. The phenomena: Simultaneity -- Part III. Stars, particles, and spacetime -- 15. Transformations -- 16. Graphing the Lorentz transformation: Minkowski diagrams -- 17. Equations of motion in four dimensional space-time -- More problems, bibliography -- Appendix I. Maxwell's laws and the speed of light -- Appendix II. Proof of the equality of axis angles in Minkowski diagrams.".
- catalog extent "vi, 234 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Maxwell's conundrum.".
- catalog identifier "0967694418".
- catalog isFormatOf "Maxwell's conundrum.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor, MI : Cavendish Press,".
- catalog relation "Maxwell's conundrum.".
- catalog subject "Lorentz transformations.".
- catalog subject "Maxwell equations.".
- catalog subject "QC173.57 .S34 2000".
- catalog subject "Relativity (Physics)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I. The detectives -- 1. "Questions that children are taught not to ask" -- 2. "Because it is so natural and simple" -- 3. Maxwell's conundrum -- 4. Einstein -- 5. Relativity, look-back time, and other confusions -- Part II. The phenomena -- 6. Clocks and meter sticks: What to keep and what to toss? -- Some corollaries -- 7. The phenomena: Time -- 8. The phenomena: Length and other kinds of distance -- 9. The phenomena: Invariance of space-time interval -- 10. The phenomena: Relativistic mass and the speed limit -- 11. The phenomena: Energy and its equivalence to mass -- 12. The Lorentz transformation -- 13. The phenomena: Bullet in the rocket -- Velocity addition -- 14. The phenomena: Simultaneity -- Part III. Stars, particles, and spacetime -- 15. Transformations -- 16. Graphing the Lorentz transformation: Minkowski diagrams -- 17. Equations of motion in four dimensional space-time -- More problems, bibliography -- Appendix I. Maxwell's laws and the speed of light -- Appendix II. Proof of the equality of axis angles in Minkowski diagrams.".
- catalog title "Maxwell's conundrum : a serious but not ponderous book about relativity / Walter Scheider.".
- catalog title "Relativity".
- catalog title "Serious but not ponderous book about relativity".
- catalog type "text".