One of the problems facing mathematics and physics is that mathematicians and physicists speak languages that the others find hard to understand. These notes take a fundamental part of physics, the special theory of relativity and describe it in terms that can be understood by mathematics students who have studied the two basic undergraduate topics, linear algebra and multivariable calculus. It gives a full description of the geometry of space-time and the foundations of the theory of electromagnetism in terms they are familiar with.
Author(s): Peter Lorimer
Edition: 1
Publisher: World Scientific
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 112
Front
Contents
Preface
Part 1 Space-Time
Chapter 1. Space and Time
Chapter 2. Minkowski Spaces
Chapter 3. The Principle of Relativity
Chapter 4. Special Relativity in the Real World
Part 2 Electromagnetism
Chapter 5. Notations
Chapter 6. The Tensor Product of Vector Spaces
Chapter 7. Electromagnetism 1
Chapter 8. Dual Spaces and Covariant Tensors
Chapter 9. The Theory of Minkowski Spaces
Chapter 10. Electromagnetism 2
Index
