Spacetime Physics Hardcover - 1966

San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1966. First ed. (presumed); no later dates stated. Hardcover. A few neat, informative notes in pen to margins of a few pages only; else overall very good thus in good to good(+) edge-tattered jacket now housed in archival mylar. Please see photos. Large quarto in blck and white illus jacket; 208 pages: illustrations, portraits; 27 cm; bibliographical references and index. Contents: (Ch. 1); Geometry of spacetime.; Parable of the surveyors --; Inertial reference frame --; Principle of relativity --; Coordinates of an event --; Invariance of the interval --; The spacetime diagram; world lines --; Regions of spacetime --; The Lorentz transformation --; The velocity parameter --; (ch. 2); Momentum and energy.; Introduction; momentum and energy in units of mass --; Momentum --; The momentum-energy 4-vector --; The equivalence of energy and rest mass --; (ch. 3); Physics of curved spacetime. / Relativity (Physics) Space and time. Physics. Physics Relativité (Physique) Espace et temps. Physique. physics. Physics. Relativity (Physics) Space and time. Physik Relativitätstheorie Zeit Einführung Relativiteitstheorie. Ruimte-tijd-theorie. Relatividade E Gravitacao. Physics -- Philosophy. Relativity (Physics) Espace et temps. Relativité (physique) Einführung. Raum.