Alternative to Kleppner - Kolenkow chapter on relativity

[almarpa]

Hello all.

I am currently using Kleppner - Kolenkow textbook on classical mechanics, and I am really liking it.

Now I have finally reached the chapter on spatial relativity, but I have read in several foums that, despite the quaity of the book, this chapter is not as fine as the others (I have not even begun with it, so I can't confirm that claim by myself).

So, in order to get a good understanding of spatial realtivity, avoiding to read a whole book like Rindler, Taylor and Wheeler, etc., I would like to know if there is another classical mechanics book that treats this topic in a better way than Kleppner and Kolenkow do.

In the library, I have access to Taylor, Morin, Gregory, and many other classical mechanics textbooks. Can you suggest me one or two of them?

Thanks.

 

[vanhees71]

A very good introduction is in Landau and Lifshitz vol. II (Classical Field Theory).

 

[almarpa]

But I thought that book was a graduate book...

I just need something at the same level of Kleppner and Kolenkow.

Anyway, I will take a look to it.

Thank U

 

[robphy]

Although Taylor and Wheeler is good, and so is
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0072397144/?tag=pfamazon01-20 ,
I want to clarify
you don't want a whole book on relativity [however short or easy to read],
but just a chapter or two among topics in mechanics... at the level of Kleppner?

 

[bcrowell]

Morin, Introduction to Classical Mechanics, has a nice treatment of SR in an appendix. Morin is basically the modern equivalent of K&K.

You might also find my SR book helpful, although it's at a slightly higher level and has more depth and breadth than you might want. It's free.

 

[almarpa]

Thanks all of you for your suggestions.

I have take a look to Morin's and Taylor's books and I think I will use both them to complement Kleppner and Kolenkow.

Morin is more modern and Taylor has a nice and more advanced treatment of 4vectors, so I feel they form a good combination.

Regards.