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Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022)

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Ricardo Jimenez wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 02:34:10 -0700 (PDT), Ufonaut <ufonaut9@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 5:36:39 PM UTC+10, prokaryotic.c...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> My current favorite GR text is "Introducing Einstein's Relativity", by
> >> D'Inverno, supplemented with a *considerable* amount of additional
> >> reading, since I was slow in picking up the required math.
> >
> >I know I have a bit of catching up on the math as well, but as it's always good to challenge yourself (I heard a quote recently : "Nothing good has ever come from a comfort zone" ! ) : Thanks for the recommendation, I've just ordered "Introducing Einstein's Relativity".
> 
> There is a new edition called "Introducing Einstein's Relativity A
> deeper understanding" that just came out coauthored with James
> Vickers.  It has this preface:
> This book provides an excellent introduction to the ideas and basic
> mathematical techniques needed for a study
> of Einstein’s superb – and now widely observationally confirmed –
> general theory of relativity. The underlying
> concepts and basic mathematics are presented with utmost clarity and
> by numerous greatly illuminating diagrams.
> The reader is taken on a gentle but comprehensive route up to
> cosmology, as currently understood, and to the
> strange features of rotating black holes and to gravitational waves. I
> am sure that it will inspire many students
> and other readers to enter into the beauties and of the power of this
> subject, which deeply underlies much of the
> physics of our world, and perhaps it will inspire others to carry this
> understanding further into what is currently
> unknown.
> Roger Penrose
> July 2021
> 
> The treatment of special relativity, at first glance, seems the same
> as in the original edition.  It is based on the Bondi k-factor.  I
> don't like that.  It makes more sense to me to establish, from the
> start, the gamma factor which is a simpler concept.


maybe he should come out with a 3rd edition and add the words atomic
bomb to it....





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Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Ricardo Jimenez <rickyjim@earthlink.net> - 2022-07-31 19:43 -0400
  Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2022-07-31 20:19 -0700
    Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Neal Giordano <bqwc@gcfikwuf.ja> - 2022-08-01 14:30 +0000
      Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2022-08-01 07:54 -0700
  Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2022-08-01 08:49 +0200
    Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2022-08-02 09:00 +0200
  Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Prokaryotic Capase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2022-08-02 00:36 -0700
    Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2022-08-02 01:05 -0700
    Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Ufonaut <ufonaut9@gmail.com> - 2022-08-03 02:34 -0700
      Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Prokaryotic Capase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2022-08-03 04:04 -0700
        Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2022-08-03 04:11 -0700
        Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Prokaryotic Capase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2022-08-03 04:34 -0700
      Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Ricardo Jimenez <rickyjim@earthlink.net> - 2022-08-03 11:09 -0400
        Re: Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity (published 2022) Prokaryotic Capase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2022-08-03 08:22 -0700
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