Special Relativity |
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THE CONSTANT SPEED OF LIGHT | 1 |
MEASURING TIME AND DISTANCE | 12 |
THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION | 23 |
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acceleration angle apparatus atom axes causality charge components conservation consider coordinates covariant decays defined denoted dilation discussion distance dynamics earth electron emitted equal equations ether experiment faster than light force F four-vector frame of reference frequency Galilean Galilean transformation go slow gravitational inertial frames labels laboratory light cone light pulse light signal lightlike linear Lorentz group Lorentz invariance Lorentz transformation matrix elements measured Michelson-Morley experiment moving clock moving frame moving with velocity muons neutron Newtonian obtain P₁ particle moving physics pi-meson principle proton quantity reading for Chapter relativistic representation respect rest energy rest mass result right-hand side rotation shown in Fig space contraction space-time diagram special relativity speed of light stationary clocks stationary frame stationary observer t₁ t₂ tachyon tensor theory time-dilation factor timelike transformation law travelling with velocity vector velocity of light wavelength world line x-axis zero