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Title: Relativity Visualized by Lewis Carroll Epstein ISBN: 0-935218-05-X Publisher: Insight Press Pub. Date: April, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A first-class book
Comment: This book was a revelation when I read it; I didn't think physics books could be this clear! By replacing equations with diagrams, this book allows non-specialist readers to fully understand the concepts in relativity without the slow, painful progress so often associated with this sort of book. If you want just one book on relativity, that will allow you not only to know how relativity works, but to intuitively understand it, then this is definitely the book for you. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: wonderful book on conceptualizing special relativity
Comment: I'm not a physicist or physics major, but I do like reading physics on a lay-level. When I hit special relativity in college physics, it was no surprise--because I'd read Epstein's book and gotten past the biggest hurdle, being able to conceptualize what's going on. (I can tell you that as far as math goes, special relativity at this level isn't difficult at all as long as you don't get your frames of reference screwed up...which I usually do.)
And that's where Relativity Visualized excels: helping you get your brain around these strange, strange, STRANGE ideas. No math. A little geometry, and believe me, you don't need to remember much from HS geometry to make sense of this, if you're curious about relativity. While I've no complaints about my college prof's treatment of relativity :-) this would have helped the poor freshman engineer in my class who, upon learning why the twin paradox isn't a paradox, said in bewilderment, "But that's stupid!" It isn't--it's just hard to accept.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ideal introduction to relativity
Comment: I owe a lot to this book. I've since gone on to read more advanced books on relativity, quantum physics, and string theory. What makes this book special is that it will make relativity an intuitive concept. As relativity is a foundation for so many other things, I needed a book which would give me a rock solid foundation. The book made relativity so simple that a child would understand it. And not only understand it, but be utterly convinced that it is correct. I now understand how relativity works about as well as I do the law of conservation of energy, as an example.
After you read this, you will want to move on, and I recomment "Quantum Reality". It's not simple like this book, though. I haven't found any books that do for quantum physics what Epstien does for relativity.
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Title: Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality by Lewis Carroll Epstein ISBN: 0935218084 Publisher: Insight Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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Title: Space and Time in Special Relativity by N. David Mermin ISBN: 0881334200 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene ISBN: 0375708111 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: QED by Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0691024170 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein ISBN: 0517884410 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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