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The general theory of relativity, together with the necessary parts of the theory of invariants, is dealt with in the author’s book Die Grundlagen der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie (The Foundations of the General Theory of Relativity) — Joh. Ambr. Barth, 1916; this book assumes some familiarity with the special theory of relativity. v
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The Special Theory We shall deliberately ignore the chronological development of the theory 1, and start directly from the answer. 2.1 The Postulates The resolution came in the form of two (just two!!) postulates. PI. The principle of relativity: Laws of physics must be the same in all inertial reference frames.
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The General Theory will not be dealt with in this course. Relativity (both the Special and General) theories, quantum mechanics, and thermody-namics are the three major theories on which modern physics is based. What is unique about these three theories, as distinct from say the theory of electromagnetism, is their generality.
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The cornerstone of the theory of special relativity is the Principle of Relativity: The Laws of Physics are the same in all inertial frames of reference. We shall see that many surprising consequences follow from this innocuous looking statement. Let us first, however, briefly review Newton’s mechanics in terms of frames of reference. y z x t O
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Amongst other things, this latter theory is essentially a theory of gravitation. Relativity (both the Special and General theories), quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics are the three major theories on which modern physics is based. What is unique about these three theories, as distinct from say the theory of electromagnetism, is their generality.
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A Brief Introduction to Special Relativity. Gary Oas Head of Physics - EPGY oas@epgy.stanford.edu. June 9, 2009. 1 The Need for a New Theory. The following concepts of classical physics are necessary to understand the reason for the necessity of special relativity. [Kin] Rules of kinematics. [N3] Newton’s three laws of motion.
One such extreme is when particles travel very fast. The theory that replaces New-tonian mechanics is due to Einstein. It is called special relativity.Thee↵ectsofspecial relativity become apparent only when the speeds of particles become comparable to the speed of light in the vacuum. The speed of light is c =299792458ms 1 This value of c is ...
