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| The Foundations of Special Relativity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Schematic Account of the Michelson-Morley Experiment | |
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| Inertial frames in Special Relativity | |
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| Einstein's Two Axioms for Special Relativity | |
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| Coordinates. The Relativity of Time | |
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| Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation | |
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| Properties of the Lorentz Transformation | |
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| Relativistic Kinematics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Length Contraction | |
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| The Length Contraction Paradox | |
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| Time Dilation | |
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| The Twin Paradox | |
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| Velocity Transformation | |
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| Transformation of Linear Acceleration | |
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| Relativistic Optics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Drag Effect | |
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| The Doppler Effect | |
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| Aberration and the Visual Appearance of Moving Objects | |
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| Spacetime | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Spacetime and Four-Tensors | |
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| The Minkowski Map of Spacetime | |
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| Rules for the Manipulation of Four-Tensors | |
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| Four-Velocity and Four-Acceleration | |
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| Wave Motion | |
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| Relativistic Particle Mechanics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Conservation of Four-Momentum | |
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| The Equivalence of Mass and Energy | |
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| Some Four-Momentum Identities | |
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| Relativistic Billiards | |
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| The Center of Momentum Frame | |
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| Threshhold Energies | |
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| De Broglie Waves | |
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| Photons | |
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| The Angular Momentum Four-Tensor | |
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| Three-Force and Four-Force | |
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| Relativistic Analytic Mechanics | |
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| Relativity and Electromagnetism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Formal Structure of Maxwell's Theory | |
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| Transformation of e and b. The dual field. | |
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| Potential and Field of an Arbitrarily Moving Charge | |
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| Field of a Uniformly Moving Charge | |
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| The Electromagnetic Energy Tensor | |
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| Electromagnetic Waves | |
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| Relativistic Mechanics of Continua | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Preliminaries. External and Internal Forces | |
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| The Augmented Momentum and Mass Densities | |
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| The Equations of Continuity and of Motion | |
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| The Mechanical Energy Tensor | |
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| Perfect Fluids and Incoherent Fluids | |
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| Integral Conservation Laws | |