Special relativity is treated in chapter 2 in the 1st edition, but broken up into chapters 2 and 3 in the 2nd edition. Wolfgang rindler, introduction to special relativity philpapers. Contents introduction l 1 from absolute space and time to influenceable spacetime. In this second edition the last three chapters on cosmology, in particular, have been updated and. In a career that spanned more than 60 years, rindler was one of the most prominent experts in theoretical relativistic cosmology and general relativity. The text features an emphasis on fourdimensional methods, mathematical elegance, and many problems and answers. We will probably have a lecture or two to introduce his general theory as well, but the principal focus will be on special relativity, which we will study in quite a bit of detail. Introduction 1 1 from absolute space and time to in.
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