Relativity

Bestselling author and physicist Stephen Hawking assembles the most groundbreaking works by Albert Einstein together into one volume and provides introductions to each work.Best-selling author and physicist Stephen Hawking assembles the most groundbreaking works by Albert Einstein together into one ... More

Originally published by Allen Lane in 1998, a popular science book containing material from the physics lectures of Richard Feynman on the subject of Einstein's relativity theory.... More

This book is a report by the Natural Research Council Board, USA, on Physics and Astronomy, to assess the field of Elementary-Particle Physics (EPP). It traces the developments in EPP, discusses the status of the field today, both in the realm of theory and experiment, explaining also how we have re... More

Ask a dozen people to name a genius and the odds are that `Einstein' will spring to their lips. Ask them the meaning of `relativity' and a few of them will be able to tell you what it is. The ABC of Relativity is Bertrand Russell's most brilliant work of scientific popularisation. With marvellous lu... More

This excellent, semi-technical account includes a review of classical physics (origin of space and time measurements, Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy, laws of motion, inertia, and more) and coverage of Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, discussing the concept of simultaneity, ... More

In 1905, an unknown 26-year-old patent clerk in Switzerland formulated two of the most revolutionary scientific concepts of the twentieth century, relativity and quantum theory, and unveiled the most famous equation in science, E-mc2. Albert Einstein's work in that miraculous year overthrew the prev... More

This book is an exposition of classical mechanics and relativity that addresses the question of whether it is possible to send probes to extrasolar systems. It examines largely well-understood physics to consider the possibility of exploring the nearby interstellar environment in a similar fashion t... More

Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to compact objects, gravitational waves and cosmology. The required mathematical concepts are introduced informally, following geometrical intuition as much as possible. T... More

This monograph presents a self contained mathematical treatment of the initial value problem for shock wave solutions of the Einstein equations in General Relativity. The first two chapters provide background for the introduction of a locally intertial Glimm Scheme, a non-dissipative numerical schem... More

The book presents state-of-the-art results on the analysis of the Einstein equations and the large scale structure of their solutions. It combines in a unique way introductory chapters and surveys of various aspects of the analysis of the Einstein equations in the large. It discusses applications of... More

"Time's" 'Man of the Century', Albert Einstein is the unquestioned founder of modern physics. His theory of relativity is the most important scientific idea of the modern era. In this short book Einstein explains, using the minimum of mathematical terms, the basic ideas and principles of the theory ... More

The Second Edition of Spacetime Physics provides a new generation of students with a deep and simple overview of the principles of relativity.... More

The world would be a very different place if it were not for Albert Einstein. Like Newton and Galileo before him, this remarkable scientist changed forever mankind's understanding of the universe. In 1921, five years after proclaiming his general theory of relativity, Einstein was awarded the Nobel ... More

In this classic text, David Bohm explores Albert Einstein's celebrated theory of relativity through inspiring and visionary lectures. First published in 1905, Einstein's ideas forever transformed the way we think about time and space. Yet for Bohm the implications of the theory were far more revolut... More

Gravitational waves (GWs) are a hot topic and promise to play a central role in astrophysics, cosmology, and theoretical physics. Technological developments have led us to the brink of their direct observation, which could become a reality in the coming years. The direct observation of GWs will open... More

Fischbach and Talmadge trace the history of attempts to test the predictions of Newtonian Gravity, and describe recent experimental efforts to verify both the inverse-square law and the equivalence principle. Interest in these questions has increased in recent years and this is the first book devote... More