Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Au Lecteur: A Philosophical-Literary Journey through Time and Space
Part I. Special Relativity
Subpart A. Towards Special Relativity
Chapter 2. Math Prerequisites
Chapter 3. The Crisis of Classical Physics: A Falling House of Cards
Chapter 4. Definitions, Postulates and Principles
Chapter 5. Where It All Began: The Light Clock
Chapter 6. The Lorentz Transformations
Chapter 7. Simultaneity and Causality
Subpart B. Special Relativity: Kinematics
Chapter 8. Lorentz-Minkowsky’s Spacetime
Chapter 9. The Accelerated Motion
Chapter 10. The Accelerated Twin Paradox
Part II. A Glimpse at General Relativity
Chapter 11. Gravitational Lensing and Proofs of General Relativity
Part III. Conclusion
Chapter 12. Relativity in a Nut
Part IV. Appendices
Appendix A. Hyperbolic Functions
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index
Author’s ORCID iD
Raul Tozzi – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3456-1151
Riccardo Zancan – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-6882