Phys 310/Math 310
The Geometry of Special Relativity

Textbooks

  • Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd ed.,
    • Prentice Hall, 1999.

    Books on Special Relativity

  • Dixon, Special relativity: the foundation of macroscopic physics,
    • Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978.
  • Ellis & Williams, Flat and curved space-times,
    • Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988.
  • French, Special relativity,
    • Norton, New York, 1968.
  • Mermin, Space and time in special relativity,
    • McGraw-Hill, New York, 1968.
  • Taylor & Wheeler, Spacetime physics : introduction to special relativity, 2nd ed.,
    • W. H. Freeman, New York, 1992.
  • Woodhouse, Special relativity,
    • Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992.
  • Synge, Relativity: the special theory, 2d ed.,
    • North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1965.
  • Rindler, Introduction to special relativity,
    • Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1982.
  • Resnick, Introduction to special relativity,
    • Wiley, New York, 1968.

    Video on Special Relativity

  • The Mechanical Universe,
    • Volume 42: The Lorentz Transformation,
    The Annenberg/CPB Collection, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1985/1987.


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