What is relativity?
By: [By] L. D. Landau & G. B. Rumer. Translated by N. Kemmer.
Contributors: Rumer, I͡U︡. B. joint author.
Series: Science & discovery
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Relativity (Physics)
Description: Here two Russian theoretical physicists give a lighthearted presentation of the special theory of relativity. It is so simply written that the reader needs no technical knowledge beyond arithmetic. Their witty text, illustrated by a series of Russian cartoons, explains the paradoxes of relativity--its funny trains, contracting rulers, and capricious clocks--in a charming way.