Introduction to Special Relativity

This is a book for undergraduates taking an introductory course on special relativity with a conceptual and mathematical emphasis. It assumes no prior knowledge of relativity.

This updated new edition contains additional examples and problems, and the chapter on relativistic mechanics of continua has been substantially rewritten. Much emphasis has been laid on developing the student's intuition for space-time geometry and four-tensor calculus; but not rejecting three-dimensional methods when they yield a result more directly.