Need a book to prepare for my Special Relativity class

[evacek3]

Hello,
Next semester I will be taking a class in Special Relativity through UIUC. Its only a 200 level course titled Relativity and math applications but I would really like to go in with a base. If anyone could give me some book suggestions which would contain practice problems and the like but not be too techinical (like a "...for dummies" book) that would be great. Or a website along the lines of Paul's Online Notes but for relativity would be great too.

NOTE: I am not looking for a book which covers Special Relativity on a conceptual level. I need one that is quantitative.

Thanks!

 

[PeterDonis]

I would recommend Taylor & Wheeler's Spacetime Physics.

 

[kostas230]

Check Rindler's Relativity. It's pretty good.

 

[Goldbeetle]

Moore's A Traveller's Guide to Spacetime is excellent.

 

[alan2]

Taylor and Wheeler is popular. I like to look for lecture notes to get a feel for something new before I start buying books. There are thousands of professors who post their notes, some are good, some are awful. Google "SR lecture notes" or something similar and you will find a lot of notes at a variety of levels.

 

[Daverz]

I suggest working all the problems in the red paperback edition of Spacetime Physics.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/071670336X/?tag=pfamazon01-20