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A novel approach to relativistic dynamicsintegrating gravity, electromagnetism and optics /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A novel approach to relativistic dynamicsby Yaakov Friedman, Tzvi Scarr.
Reminder of title:	integrating gravity, electromagnetism and optics /
Author:	Friedman, Yaakov.
other author:	Scarr, Tzvi.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023.
Description:	xv, 196 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Relativity (Physics)
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25214-3
ISBN:	9783031252143$q(electronic bk.)

A novel approach to relativistic dynamicsintegrating gravity, electromagnetism and optics /
Friedman, Yaakov.

A novel approach to relativistic dynamicsintegrating gravity, electromagnetism and optics /[electronic resource] :by Yaakov Friedman, Tzvi Scarr. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - xv, 196 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Fundamental theories of physics,v. 2102365-6425 ;. - Fundamental theories of physics ;v.172..

1. Introduction -- 2. Classical Dynamics -- 3. The Lorentz Transformations and Minkowski Space -- 4. The Geometric Model of Relativistic Dynamics -- 5. The Electromagnetic Field in Vacuum -- 6. The Gravitational Field -- 7. Motion of Light and Charges in Isotropic Media -- 8. Spin and Complexified Minkowski Spacetime -- 9. The Prepotential.

This self-contained monograph provides a mathematically simple and physically meaningful model which unifies gravity, electromagnetism, optics and even some quantum behavior. The simplicity of the model is achieved by working in the frame of an inertial observer and by using a physically meaningful least action principle. The authors introduce an extension of the Principle of Inertia. This gives rise to a simple, physically meaningful action function. Visualizations of the geometryare obtained by plotting the action function. These visualizations may be used to compare the geometries of different types of fields. Moreover, a new understanding of the energy-momentum of a field emerges. The relativistic dynamics derived here properly describes motion of massive and massless objects under the influence of a gravitational and/or an electromagnetic field, and under the influence of isotropic media. The reader will learn how to compute the precession of Mercury, the deflection of light, and the Shapiro time delay. Also covered is the relativistic motion of binary stars, including the generation of gravitational waves, a derivation of Snell's Law and a relativistic description of spin. We derive a complex-valued prepotential of an electromagnetic field. The prepotential is similar to the wave function in quantum mechanics. The mathematics is accessible to students after standard courses in multivariable calculus and linear algebra. For those unfamiliar with tensors and the calculus of variations, these topics are developed rigorously in the opening chapters. The unifying model presented here should prove useful to upper undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to seasoned researchers.

ISBN: 9783031252143$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-25214-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

189569
Relativity (Physics)

LC Class. No.: QC173.6 / .F75 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 530.11

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