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020			_a9781139170307 (ebook)
020			_z9780521411714 (hardback)
020			_z9780521423236 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aQC476.W38 _bB35 1992
082	0	0	_a535/.1 _220
100	1		_aBaierlein, Ralph, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNewton to Einstein : _bthe trail of light : an excursion to the wave-particle duality and the special theory of relativity / _cRalph Baierlein.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1992.
300			_a1 online resource (xvi, 329 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520			_aThis undergraduate text takes the reader along the trail of light from Newton's particles to Einstein's relativity. Like the best detective stories, it presents clues and encourages the reader to draw conclusions before the answers are revealed. The first seven chapters describe how light behaves, develop Newton's particle theory, introduce waves and an electromagnetic wave theory of light, discover the photon, and culminate in the wave-particle duality. The book then goes on to develop the special theory of relativity, showing how time dilation and length contraction are consequences of the two simple principles on which the theory is founded. An extensive chapter derives the equation E = mc2 clearly from first principles and then explores its consequences and the misconceptions surrounding it. That most famous of issues arising from special relativity - the aging of the twins - is treated simply but compellingly.
650		0	_aWave-particle duality.
650		0	_aSpecial relativity (Physics)
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521411714
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139170307
999			_c519930 _d519928