ABSTRACT

The book opens with a description of the smooth transition from Newtonian to Einsteinian behaviour from electrons as their energy is progressively increased, and this leads directly to the relativistic expressions for mass, momentum and energy of a particle.

chapter 1|34 pages

Departures from Newtonian dynamics

chapter 2|26 pages

Perplexities in the propagation of light

chapter 5|19 pages

Relativistic kinematics

chapter 7|23 pages

More about relativistic dynamics

chapter 8|40 pages

Relativity and electricity

chapter |3 pages

Epilogue