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In case you haven't heard, there is a new textbook on relativity to be published by Cambridge UP in 2022. It is compiled and edited by Coleman's three students Griffiths, Derbes, and Sohn who took Physics 210 relativity course at Harvard in the late 60's when Sidney was teaching it.
The book consists of two parts devoted to special relativity and (beginning) general relativity. The entire book can be downloaded on a chapter-by-chapter basis on CUP website and is also available to pre-order on various platforms.
Those who have read Coleman's "Aspects of Symmetry" and his recently compiled lecture notes on QFT (again, by his students) may expect the new book to become pedagogically successeful, even though the lectures were delivered 50 years ago. I have only glanced through the first part on special relativity so far, but I can already note a nice discussion of Green's funcitons, an often omitted derivation of the EM field tensor due to a point charge in arbitrary motion, and an important discussion of mass renormalization in relativistic electrodynamics, among other things. In addition, Coleman's style of teaching physics is nicely conveyed by the editors and is apparent from reading the book. However, these are still lecture notes, so do not expect a full treatise on relativity (the second part of the book on general relativity is introductory).
The book consists of two parts devoted to special relativity and (beginning) general relativity. The entire book can be downloaded on a chapter-by-chapter basis on CUP website and is also available to pre-order on various platforms.
Those who have read Coleman's "Aspects of Symmetry" and his recently compiled lecture notes on QFT (again, by his students) may expect the new book to become pedagogically successeful, even though the lectures were delivered 50 years ago. I have only glanced through the first part on special relativity so far, but I can already note a nice discussion of Green's funcitons, an often omitted derivation of the EM field tensor due to a point charge in arbitrary motion, and an important discussion of mass renormalization in relativistic electrodynamics, among other things. In addition, Coleman's style of teaching physics is nicely conveyed by the editors and is apparent from reading the book. However, these are still lecture notes, so do not expect a full treatise on relativity (the second part of the book on general relativity is introductory).
