PROBLEM-BASED INTRODUCTION SPECIAL & GENERAL RELATIVITY: Including Worked Problems and Discussions of the Ehrenfest Paradox and the Maxwell Equations

It is Einstein's Theory of Relativity that braids space and time into a thread from which the fabric of existence is woven; it is Relativity that forces the existence of magnetism, and the Pauli Principle, and the biochemistry of living things. A Newtonian universe would be sterile.

There is a fever-dream alienness to Einstein's theory, which offers students a first opportunity to see how profoundly different physical reality is from our familiar (and grossly inaccurate) classical picture. T...