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100 1 _aFeynman, Richard P.
_q(Richard Phillips),
_d1918-1988.
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245 1 0 _aSix not-so-easy pieces :
_bEinstein's relativity, symmetry, and space-time /
_cRichard P. Feynman, with Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands ; introduction by Roger Penrose.
246 3 _a6 not-so-easy pieces
260 _aNew York :
_bBasic Books/Perseus Books Group,
_cc2011.
300 _axxvii, 154 p. :
_bill. ;
_c21 cm.
500 _aSIBF2023
500 _aFrom Feynman's "Lectures on Physics" delivered at the California Institute of Technology between 1961 and 1963.
501 _aP.B
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aVectors. 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 -- The Special Theory of Relativity ; The principle of relativity ; The Lorentz transformation ; The Michelson-Morley experiment ; Transformation of time ; The Lorentz contraction ; Simultaneity ; Four-vectors ; Relativistic dynamics ; Equivalence of mass and energy ; Relativistic Energy and Momentum. Relativity and the philosophers ; The twin paradox ; Transformation of velocities ; Relativistic mass ; Relativistic energy ; Space-Time. The 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 ; The speed of clocks in a gravitational field ; The curvature of space-time ; Motion in curved space-time ; Einstein's theory of gravitation.
520 _a"...In the challenging 'Six Not-So-Easy Pieces', Feynman delves into one of the most revolutionary discoveries in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's Theory of Relativity..."--P. [4] of cover.
650 0 _aSymmetry (Physics)
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650 0 _aSpecial relativity (Physics)
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650 0 _aSpace and time.
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650 7 _aSpace and time.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01127622
_913911
650 7 _aSpecial relativity (Physics)
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01128981
_913912
650 7 _aSymmetry (Physics)
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01140819
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700 1 _aLeighton, Robert B.
_913914
700 1 _aSands, Matthew L.
_q(Matthew Linzee)
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700 1 _aPenrose, Roger.
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