Books on Special Relativity

The following books on special relativity
should be available in the OSU library.
  • Dixon, Special relativity: the foundation of macroscopic physics,
  • Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978.
    (QC173.65 .D58)
  • Ellis & Williams, Flat and curved space-times,
  • Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988.
    (QC173.65 .E45 1988)
  • French, Special relativity,
  • Norton, New York, 1968.
    (QC6 .F74)
  • Mermin, Space and time in special relativity,
  • McGraw-Hill, New York, 1968.
    (QC6 .M4)
  • Taylor & Wheeler, Spacetime physics : introduction to special relativity, 2nd ed.,
  • W. H. Freeman, New York, 1992.
    (QC173.65 .T37 1992)
  • Woodhouse, Special relativity,
  • Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992.
    (QC173.65 .W66 1992)
  • Synge, Relativity: the special theory, 2d ed.,
  • North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1965.
    (QC6 .S9 1964a)
  • Rindler, Introduction to special relativity,
  • Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1982.
    (QC173.65 .R56 1982)
  • Resnick, Introduction to special relativity,
  • Wiley, New York, 1968.
    (QC6 .R388)

    Video on Special Relativity

  • The Mechanical Universe,
  • Volume 42: The Lorentz Transformation,
    The Annenberg/CPB Collection, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1985/1987.
    (available from the Corvallis Public Library)



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