Spacetime physics

by Edwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler

The Geometry of Parable of the Surveyors, Inertial Reference Frame, Principle of Relativity, Coordinates of an Event, Invariance of the Interval, Spacetime Diagram; World Lines, Regions of Spacetime, Lorentz Transformation, Velocity Parameter. Momentum and Introduction; Momentum and Energy in Units of Mass, Momentum, Momentum energy 4-vector, Equivalence of Energy and Rest Mass, Exercises of Chapter 2: Introduction and Table of Contents. The Physics of Curved Spacetime.

208 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1966

About the author

Edwin Floriman Taylor was an American physicist known for his contributions to the teaching of physics. Taylor was editor of the American Journal of Physics, and author of several introductory books to physics. In 1998 he was awarded the Oersted Medal for his contributions to the teaching of physics.