Six not-so-easy pieces
Subtitle: Einstein's relativity, symmetry, and space-time
By: Richard P. Feynman, with Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands ; introduction by Roger Penrose
Contributors: Leighton, Robert B.; Sands, Matthew L. (Matthew Linzee)
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780465025268
Subjects: Symmetry (Physics); Special relativity (Physics); Space and time
Other titles: 6 not-so-easy pieces
Description: "...In the challenging 'Six Not-So-Easy Pieces', Feynman delves into one of the most revolutionary discoveries in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's Theory of Relativity..."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: From Feynman's "Lectures on Physics" delivered at the California Institute of Technology between 1961 and 1963.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vectors. Symmetry in physics ; Translations ; Rotations ; Vectors ; Vector algebra ; Newton's laws in vector notation ; Scalar product of vectors; title: Symmetry in Physical Laws. Symmetry operations ; Symmetry in space and time ; Symmetry and conservation laws ; Mirror reflections ; Polar and axial vectors ; Which hand is right? ; Parity is not conserved! ; Antimatter ; Broken symmetries; title: The Special Theory of Relativity ; The principle of relativity ; The Lorentz transformation ; The Michelson-Morley experiment ; Transformation of time ; The Lorentz contraction ; Simultaneity ; Four-vectors ; Relativistic dynamics ; Equivalence of mass and energy ; Relativistic Energy and Momentum. Relativity and the philosophers ; The twin paradox ; Transformation of velocities ; Relativistic mass ; Relativistic energy ; Space-Time. The geometry of space-time ; Space-time intervals ; Past, present, and future ; More about four-vectors ; Four-vector algebra ; Curved Space. Curved spaces with two dimensions ; Curvature in three-dimensional space ; Our space is curved ; Geometry in space-time ; Gravity and the principle of equivalence ; The speed of clocks in a gravitational field ; The curvature of space-time ; Motion in curved space-time ; Einstein's theory of gravitation.