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Introduction to special relativity. 2nd edition. (English) Zbl 0781.70001

Oxford Science Publications. Oxford: Clarendon Press (ISBN 0-19-853953-3/hbk; 0-19-853952-5/pbk). x, 169 p. (1991).
The text of the first edition is refined and improved. Major changes concern the derivation of the Lorentz transformation and the development of continuum mechanics. For a review of the first edition see Zbl 0507.70001.
Reviewer: B.Wegner (Berlin)

MSC:

70-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems
70H40 Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics
83A05 Special relativity

Citations:

Zbl 0507.70001
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