Book:Martin Gardner/The Relativity Explosion

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Martin Gardner: The Relativity Explosion

Published $\text {1976}$, Vintage

ISBN 0-394-72104-7


Revised edition of Relativity for the Million from 1962.

Contents

Introduction
1 Absolute or Relative?
2 The Michelson-Morley Experiment
3 The Special Theory of Relativity, Part I
4 The Special Theory of Relativity, Part II
5 The General Theory of Relativity
6 Gravity and Spacetime
7 Test of General Relativity
8 Mach's Principle
9 The Twin Paradox
10 Models of the Universe
11 Quasars, Pulsars, and Black Holes
12 Beginning and End
Index