The Eclectic Watercolourist’s Guide to: SPECIAL RELATIVITY
The Eclectic Watercolourist’s Guide to: SPECIAL RELATIVITY
[with a bit of General thrown in]
About the Book
This book is an introductory reading into Special Relativity. It is written for the lay-person and you can easily skip the maths without losing any understanding of the topic at hand. It is illustrated in water-colours by the author.
About the Authors
Table of Contents
- There’s something wrong with speed
- How we learn
- Length, time, simultaneity and speed
- Energy and Mass
- Interlude - the uselessness of trees
-
Light - wave or particle?
- Water waves
- Wave properties of light
- Particle properties of light
- Light is a wavicle or partave
- Parallel universes
- Interlude - Carbon Dioxide
- Acceleration, velocity, frames of reference
- Transformation Equations
- Interlude - Past Temperatures
- Using transformation equations
- Proper velocity, momentum, conservation
- The mass of a photon
- Gravity and Time
- Spacetime
- Some exercises and a summary
- Notes
The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee
Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.
Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.
You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!
So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?
See full terms...
Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase
We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.
(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)
In fact, authors have earnedover $13 millionwriting, publishing and selling on Leanpub.
Learn more about writing on Leanpub
Free Updates. DRM Free.
If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).
Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.
Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.
Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them
