Introduction to Relativity Volume II: In-Depth and Accessible [Paperback]

1. Steps Before the Lorentz Transformation  2. The Lorentz Transformation. the New Metric and Accelerated Objects  3. The Relativistic Laws of Dynamics  4. Introduction to General Relativity  5. Important Consequences  6. Introduction to Cosmological Models  7. Further Axiomatic Considerations  8. Answers to the Questions and Exercises

E=mc? is known as the most famous but least understood equation in physics. This two-volume textbook illuminates this equation and much more through clear and detailed explanations, new demonstrations, a more physical approach, and a deep analysis of the concepts and postulates of Relativity.

I certainly think the book is very worthwhile. It fills a gap in the literature, in that special relativity in itself is not so much taught in the curriculum, undergraduate or graduate, as it is typically discussed in a more summary form in other courses. In the courses where it is more extensively used as a tool, the physical consequences are not brought out so much as the technical and mathematical aspects. Your book makes the physical consequences concrete and goes beyond the simple demonstrations to allow a fuller understanding of the underlying circumstances, e.g. the way the clock synchronization requirement brings about both time dilation and length contraction.

Ryan Rohm, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paul Bruma is a French engineer who graduated from Institut Polytechnique - Telecom, Paris. This curriculum includes a broad program in mathematics and physics, equivalent to a Masters degree in science.

After a career with the international telecom equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent (former Bell Labs), Paul Bruma resumed physics studies, which was his favorite discipline as a student. Regarding Relativity, Paul Brulӓ