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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Publisher's note -- Introduction by roger penrose -- Special preface -- Feynman's preface-- Vectors: -- Symmetry in physics -- Translations -- Rotations -- Vectors -- Vector algebra -- Newton's laws in vector notation -- Scalar product of vectors -- Symmetry in physical laws: Symmetry operations -- Symmetry in space and time -- Symmetry and conservation laws -- Mirror reflections -- Polar and axial vectors -- Which hand is right? -- Parity is not conserved! -- Antimatter -- Broken symmetries -- Special theory of relativity: Principle of relativity -- Lorentz transformation -- Michelson-morley experiment -- Transformation of time -- Lorentz contraction -- Simultaneity -- Four-vectors -- Relativistic dynamics -- Equivalence of mass and energy -- Relativistic energy and momentum: Relativity and the philosophers -- Twin paradox -- Transformation of velocities -- Relativistic mass -- Relativistic energy -- Space-time: Geometry of space-time -- Space-time intervals -- Past, present, and future -- More about four-vectors -- Four-vector algebra -- Curved space: Curved spaces with two dimensions -- Curvature in three-dimensional space -- Our space is curved -- Geometry in space-time -- Gravity and the principle of equivalence -- Speed of clocks in a gravitational field -- Curvature of space-time -- Motion in curved space-time -- Einstein's theory of gravitation -- Index -- About Richard Feynman.
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