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Special Relativity for Beginners: A Textbook for Undergraduates

Jürgen Freund

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The Postulates of Special Relativity Time Dilation Length Contraction Lorentz Transformation in 1-3 Dimensions Minkowski Diagrams Simultaneity Velocity Addition Aberration of Light Accelerated Motion Doppler Effect Relativistic Paradoxes Explained in Detail Images of Fast Moving Objects Mass Momentum Energy Force Four-Dimensional Invariance Four-Vectors and Scalar Products High-Energy Physics Problems Calculated with the Energy-Momentum Four-Vector, Electric and Magnetic Fields.

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Key concepts: Time dilation, Length contraction, Special relativity, Lorentz transformation, Minkowski space, Physics, Energy–momentum relation, Theory of relativity