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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A lucid treatment by a true master
Landau and Rumer do an excellent job of explaining the basics of relativity. You will be hard pressed to find any book that explains these ideas more clearly or succinctly. Finally, the treatment itself demonstrates the power of theory and experiment in its ability to overturn our most closely held intuitions.
Published on December 2, 2004 by Norman Kabir
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2 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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For Beginners Only
Never felt the need to submit a review -- before this book. This is the lightest science related text I have bought. (Did the other review sway me? Probably.) This translated-from-Russian text includes vintage Russian illustrations, which are amusing on their own, but the actual science is so very shallow. It's not enough to rehash the standard scenarios that tweak...
Published on April 7, 2005 by Paul Tuinenga
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A lucid treatment by a true master,
By Norman Kabir (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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Landau and Rumer do an excellent job of explaining the basics of relativity. You will be hard pressed to find any book that explains these ideas more clearly or succinctly. Finally, the treatment itself demonstrates the power of theory and experiment in its ability to overturn our most closely held intuitions.
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superb book,
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This is probably the only book that teaches layman the true nature of relativity (time expands and rulers can shrink). It does is in just 60 or so pages. After reading this book, it is marvelous to see how other books fumble around with explanations.
2 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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For Beginners Only,
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Never felt the need to submit a review -- before this book. This is the lightest science related text I have bought. (Did the other review sway me? Probably.) This translated-from-Russian text includes vintage Russian illustrations, which are amusing on their own, but the actual science is so very shallow. It's not enough to rehash the standard scenarios that tweak our everyday experience -- Einstein revealed a subtlety to the theories of Galileo and Newton that went unappreciated for centuries. Perhaps too much to expect from 65 pages...
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What Is Relativity? by L. D. Landau (Paperback - January 23, 2003)
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