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Author:   Moses Fayngold (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA) ,  Roland Wengenmayr
Publisher:   Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Imprint:   Blackwell Verlag GmbH
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   0.709kg
ISBN:  

9783527403448

ISBN 10:   3527403442
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   23 September 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Light and relativity Imaginary paradoxes The velocities' play Superluminal motions Slow light and fast light Tachyons and tachyon-like objects The speed of light as a fundamental constant of Nature

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... supplementary reading material to the standard texts, that expands on the concepts without getting hyper-specialized D. Green, The New School University, NY, USA ... the physics community will enthusiastically receive this book and [...] it will be widely adopted by physics and engineering teachers as a complementary textbook. S. Piatek, New Jersey Inst. of Techn., USA Dr. Fayngold knows how to tell a story. S. Piatek, New Jersey Inst. Of Techn.

... supplementary reading material to the standard texts, that expands on the concepts without getting hyper specialized (D. Green, The New School University, NY). ... the physics community will enthusiastically receive this book and [...] it will be widely adopted by physics and engineering teachers as a complementary textbook. (S. Piatek, New Jersey Inst. of Techn.) Dr. Fayngold knows how to tell a story. (S. Piatek, New Jersey Inst. Of Techn.)

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Moses Fayngold is Special Lecturer at the Physics Department of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he is also involved in the research activities of the Multi-Disciplinary Optical Science and Engineering Program. He has been lecturing for some 20 years on special relativity, both to non-specialized audiences in public planetariums as well as to undergraduate and graduate students.

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