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Relativity Lite is designed for the General Astronomy sequence (PH 361-2U, SCI 315-6U) whose primary book glosses over Special Relativity and General Relativity while trying to explain the Cosmology that is based on those subjects. Relativity Lite translates the mathematical equations conventional relativity texts rely upon into pictures that are readily understood and contain within them the mathematical essentials. This book provides the comprehensive coverage needed to understand, in sufficient depth, these three linked areas of our reality.
Readers seeking this knowledge on their own, and those in other courses for nonscientists, may also find it helpful.
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DOI
10.15760/pdxopen-29
Publication Date
8-19-2020
Publisher
Portland State University Library
Subjects
Astronomy, Special and General relativity (Physics)
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Copyright © 2020 Jack C. Straton
This textbook, except for the figures, is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC). You are free to copy, share, adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any non-commercial purpose as long as you follow the terms of the license.
Figures, except as noted, copyright © 2020 Jack C. Straton are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You are free to share the material for any non-commercial purposes as long as you follow the terms of license.
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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/33509
Recommended Citation
Straton, Jack C., "Relativity Lite: A Pictorial Translation of Einstein’s Theories of Motion and Gravity" (2020). PDXOpen: Open Educational Resources. 30.
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/30
10.15760/pdxopen-29
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