TY - BOOK AU - Bertel Laurent TI - Introduction to spacetime : A First Course on Relativity SN - 9789810219291 U1 - 530.11 PY - 1995/// CY - New Jersey PB - World Scientific KW - Relativity (Physics) KW - Space and time KW - Electrodynamics N1 - The theory of relativity is tackled directly in this book, dispensing with the need to establish the insufficiency of Newtonian mechanics. This book takes advantage from the start of the geometrical nature of the relativity theory. The reader is assumed to be familiar with vector calculus in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space ER -