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| Apr 14, 2015 at 13:07 | vote | accept | ThePhysicist | ||
| Apr 14, 2015 at 13:07 | comment | added | ThePhysicist | I am following 3 books (Concepts of Physics by Dr H C Verma, Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday-Resnick-Walker and Concepts of Modern Physics by Arthur Beiser). Though I'd learned Galilean and Lorentz Transformation from Halliday-Resnick-Walker, it does not talk about events separated by distance in the rest frame. I have found separate sections in Beiser about Space-Time and I'll go through it. Thank you very much for your suggestion. I'll go through all of the materials mentioned by you. | |
| Apr 14, 2015 at 10:33 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | Special Relativity by French, Spacetime Physics by Taylor and Wheeler, and An Illustrated Guide to Relativity by Takeuchi are all good intro books. For free sites, this wikibook is good. Which textbook did you use BTW? Did it cover the Lorentz transform but not the interval, or did you learn the Lorentz transform elsewhere? | |
| Apr 14, 2015 at 10:26 | comment | added | ThePhysicist | I am only beginning with the theory of special relativity and started with a standard textbook for beginners. However I had already covered the Lorentz transformation. So I can make some sense of your answers. The description of Space-Time intervals in flat space is beyond the scope of the 3 physics books. Any idea which book or site I should start with? | |
| Apr 14, 2015 at 10:16 | history | edited | Hypnosifl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 14, 2015 at 9:56 | history | answered | Hypnosifl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |