Theory of Relativity: I

The following sections are included:

• Principle of Relativity in Mechanics and Electrodynamics

  • Galileian Transformation

• The Search for an Absolute Frame Tied to the Ether

• Einstein's Postulates

• Lorentz Transformation

• Lorentz Contraction, Time Dilation, and Addition of Velocities

• Minkowski Notation

• General Lorentz Transformation

• Scalars, Vectors, and Tensors in Four Dimensions

• Four-Velocity, Four-Acceleration, and Proper Time

• Lorentz-Covariant Form of the Potential Equations

• Plane Waves

• The Twin Paradox

• CHAPTER 6 EXERCISES