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Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein
Relativity and Common Sense A New Approach to Einstein Author:Hermann Bondi Readers who have struggled through the succession of "popular" accounts of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity will find here the first truly different presentation of the subject to appear in fifty years. — Instead of plunging the reader immediately into mathematics from which this theory is developed, Professor Bondi first discusses ... more »the implications of the theory (and its derivation from the classical physics of Isaac Newton) and then shows how the mathematics arises directly and simply from the physical situation. Any reader with a background of high school algebra can follow his discussion. Sixty drawings and diagrams designed to illustrate the argument (and not merely to decorate the pages) contribute to the clarity of presentation.« less