Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material
Author Bennett, Jeffrey O.

Title What is relativity? : an intuitive introduction to Einstein's ideas, and why they matter / Jeffrey Bennett.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  530.11 BENNETT    ---  DUE 10-08-24
Description viii, 192 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note Includes index.
Contents Getting started -- Voyage to a black hole -- Einstein's special theory of relativity -- Racing light -- Redefining space and time -- A new common sense -- Einstein's general theory of relativity -- Newton's absurdity -- Redefining gravity -- Implications of relativity -- Black holes -- The expanding universe -- Epilogue : your indelible mark on the universe.
Indexed In: Library Journal, March 2014
Booklist starred, February 2014
Choice, October 2014
Kirkus Review, January 2014
Science Books & Films (A.A.A.S.), May 2015
Summary An introduction to the theories of Einstein and what it would be like to experience a black hole.
Audience Adult Follett School Solutions.
Subject Relativity (Physics)
ISBN 9780231167260

 
    
Available items only