Special Relativity and How it Works

Moses Fayngold is Special Lecturer at the Physics Department of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he is also involved in the research activities of the Multi-Disciplinary Optical Science and Engineering Program. He has been lecturing for some 20 years on special relativity, both to non-specialized audiences in public planetariums as well as to undergraduate and graduate students.

1 Introduction
2 Light and Relativity
3 The Velocities' Play
4 Space-Time
5 Relativity at Work I: Mechanics
6 Relativity at Work II: Electromagnetism and Optics
7 Relativistic Paradoxes
8 Miracles of a Spinning World
9 The Theory of Relativity is the Theory of Absoluteness
10 Relativity at Work III: Quantum Mechanics
11 Relativity and Causality
12 Applied Relativity and Relativistic Engineering
14 A Bit of General Relativity
Appendices

Comments on the previous Fayngold book 'Special Relativity and Motions Faster than Light':"... supplementary reading material to the standard texts, that expands on the concepts without getting hyper-specialized" (D. Green, The New School University, NY, USA)"... the physics community will enthusiastically receive this book and [...] it will be widely adopted by physics and engineering teachers as a complementary textbook." (S. Piatek, New Jersey Inst. of Techn., USA)"Dr. Fayngold knows how to tell a story." (S. Piatek, New Jersey Inst. Of Techn.)