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A Sophisticate's Primer of Relativity: Second Edition
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Author/Editor: P. W. Bridgman
ISBN 10:0486425495
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Geared toward readers already acquainted with special relativity, this book transcends the view of theory as a working tool to answer natural questions: What is a frame of reference? What is a "law of nature"? What is the role of the "observer"? Extensive, nonscientific treatment. 1983 edition.
 


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Geared toward readers already acquainted with special relativity, this book transcends the view of theory as a working tool to answer natural questions: What is a frame of reference? What is a "law of nature"? What is the role of the "observer"? Extensive, nonscientific treatment. 1983 edition.
Unabridged republication of the second edition originally published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 1984.
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ISBN 10: 0486425495
ISBN 13: 9780486425498
Author/Editor: P. W. Bridgman
Format: Book
Page Count: 224
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Publication date: December 2002
Table of Contents: Click here to view the Table of Contents

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