How long does it take to read Special Relativity?
Special Relativity by A. P. French takes about 5 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 15 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1968. 286 pages, about 78,650 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The book opens with a description of the smooth transition from Newtonian to Einsteinian behaviour from electrons as their energy is progressively increased, and this leads directly to the relativistic expressions for mass, momentum and energy of a particle.
Subjects: Special relativity (Physics), Relativity (Physics), Relativité (Physique), Relativité restreinte (Physique), Relativitätstheorie, Spezielle Relativitätstheorie
