Transcription of Lecture Notes on Special Relativity
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Lecture Notes on Special Relativityprepared byJ D CresserDepartment of PhysicsMacquarie University8thAugust 2005 Contents1 Introduction: What is Relativity ?32 Frames of an Arbitrary Reference Frame .. Frames of Reference .. s First Law of Motion ..133 Newtonian Galilean Transformation .. Force and Momentum .. s Second Law of Motion .. s Third Law of Motion .. Relativity .. s equations and the Ether ..194 Einsteinian s Postulates .. Synchronization in an Inertial Frame .. Transformation .. Kinematics.
The laws of physics take the same mathematical form in all frames of reference moving with constant velocity with respect to one another. Explicitly recognized in this statement is the empirical fact that the laws of nature, almost without exception, can be expressed in the form of mathematical equations. Why this should be so is a
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