Modern Special Relativity: A Student's Guide with Discussions and Examples
暫譯: 現代特殊相對論：學生指南與討論及範例

Rafelski, Johann

Modern Special Relativity: A Student's Guide with Discussions and Examples
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2022-03-08
  • 售價: $2,310
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 458
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 303054351X
  • ISBN-13: 9783030543518
  • 相關分類: 物理學 Physics

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This book presents Special Relativity in a language accessible to students while avoiding the burdens of geometry, tensor calculus, space-time symmetries, and the introduction of four vectors. The search for clarity in the fundamental questions about Relativity, the discussion of historical developments before and after 1905, the strong connection to current research topics, many solved examples and problems, and illustrations of the material in colloquial discussions are the most significant and original assets of this book. Importantly for first-time students, Special Relativity is presented such that nothing needs to be called paradoxical or apparent; everything is explained.

The content of this volume develops and builds on the book Relativity Matters (Springer, 2017). However, this presentation of Special Relativity does not require 4-vector tools. The relevant material has been extended and reformulated, with additional examples and clarifications.

Thisintroduction of Special Relativity offers conceptual insights reaching well beyond the usual method of teaching relativity. It considers relevant developments after the discovery of General Relativity (which itself is not presented), and advances the reader into contemporary research fields. This presentation of Special Relativity is connected to present day research topics in particle, nuclear, and high intensity pulsed laser physics and is complemented by the current cosmological perspective. The conceptual reach of Special Relativity today extends significantly further compared even to a few decades ago.

As the book progresses, the qualitative and historical introduction turns into a textbook-style presentation with many detailed results derived in an explicit manner. The reader reaching the end of this text needs knowledge of classical mechanics, a good command of elementary algebra, basic knowledge of calculus, and introductory know-how of electromagnetism.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書以學生易於理解的語言介紹特殊相對論，同時避免幾何學、張量微積分、時空對稱性和四維向量的負擔。對於相對論的基本問題追求清晰的解釋、討論1905年前後的歷史發展、與當前研究主題的強烈聯繫、眾多已解決的範例和問題，以及在口語討論中對材料的插圖，都是這本書最重要且原創的資產。對於初學者來說，特殊相對論的呈現方式使得沒有任何內容需要被稱為悖論或表面現象；一切都有清楚的解釋。

本卷的內容發展並基於書籍《Relativity Matters》（Springer, 2017）。然而，這種特殊相對論的呈現不需要四維向量工具。相關材料已被擴展和重新表述，並增加了額外的範例和澄清。

這本特殊相對論的介紹提供了超越傳統教學方法的概念洞見。它考慮了在廣義相對論發現後的相關發展（廣義相對論本身並未呈現），並將讀者引入當代研究領域。這種特殊相對論的呈現與當今粒子、核能和高強度脈衝激光物理的研究主題相連結，並輔以當前的宇宙學視角。今天特殊相對論的概念範疇顯著超越了幾十年前的情況。

隨著書籍的進展，質性和歷史的介紹轉變為教科書風格的呈現，並以明確的方式推導出許多詳細的結果。讀者在閱讀完本書後需要具備古典力學的知識、良好的初等代數能力、基本的微積分知識，以及電磁學的入門知識。

作者簡介

Johann Rafelski is a theoretical physicist working at The University of Arizona in Tucson, USA. Born in Kraków, Poland in 1950, he received his Ph.D. with Walter Greiner at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany in 1973. In 1977 Rafelski arrived at CERN-Geneva, where with Rolf Hagedorn he developed the search for quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy ion collision as a novel research domain. He invented and developed the strangeness quark flavor as the signature of quark-gluon plasma, advancing the discovery of this new phase of primordial matter. Professor Rafelski teaches Relativity, Quantum, Particle and Nuclear Physics; in addition to CERN and Arizona, he also has held professional appointments at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, the University of Frankfurt, the University of Cape Town, the University of Paris-Jussieu, and the Ecole Polytechnique. He has been a DFG Excellence Initiative Professor atLudwig-Maximillian University Munich. In collaboration with researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and ELI-Beamlines in Prague he is using ultra-intense lasers in nuclear and fundamental physics.

Prof. Rafelski is the editor of the open-access book: Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks - From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN - With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn (Springer, 2016) and he has authored the book: Relativity Matters - From Einstein's EMC2 to Laser Particle Acceleration and Quark-Gluon Plasma (Springer, 2017).


作者簡介(中文翻譯)

約翰·拉費爾斯基（Johann Rafelski）是一位理論物理學家，目前在美國亞利桑那州的亞利桑那大學工作。他於1950年出生於波蘭克拉科夫，1973年在德國法蘭克福的約翰·沃爾夫岡·歌德大學獲得博士學位，指導教授為瓦爾特·格賴納（Walter Greiner）。1977年，拉費爾斯基來到瑞士日內瓦的CERN，與羅夫·哈根多恩（Rolf Hagedorn）一起開發了在相對論重離子碰撞中尋找夸克-膠子等離子體的研究領域。他發明並發展了奇異夸克（strangeness quark）風味，作為夸克-膠子等離子體的標誌，推進了這一新型原始物質相的發現。拉費爾斯基教授教授相對論、量子物理、粒子物理和核物理；除了CERN和亞利桑那州，他還曾在美國費城的賓夕法尼亞大學、芝加哥的阿根奈國家實驗室、法蘭克福大學、開普敦大學、巴黎-朱斯約大學以及巴黎高等工藝學院（Ecole Polytechnique）擔任專業職位。他曾是慕尼黑路德維希-馬克西米利安大學的DFG卓越倡議教授。拉費爾斯基教授與來自巴黎高等工藝學院和布拉格ELI-Beamlines的研究人員合作，利用超強激光進行核物理和基礎物理的研究。

拉費爾斯基教授是開放存取書籍《熔化的強子，沸騰的夸克 - 從哈根多恩溫度到CERN的超相對論重離子碰撞 - 向羅夫·哈根多恩致敬》（Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks - From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN - With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn）（Springer, 2016）的編輯，並且他還著有《相對論的重要性 - 從愛因斯坦的E=mc²到激光粒子加速和夸克-膠子等離子體》（Relativity Matters - From Einstein's EMC2 to Laser Particle Acceleration and Quark-Gluon Plasma）（Springer, 2017）。

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