4 Special Relativity
The theory of space and time for inertial frames at constant relative velocity, featuring time dilation, length contraction, and mass-energy equivalence.
4.1 Topics
Ordered from more general to more specific:
4.2 References
- Knight, R. D. Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics. Pearson, 2023. — source for the heading explanation.
- Annihilation
- Constancy of the Speed of Light
- Contracted Length
- Coordinate Transformations
- Elastic Potential Energy Formula Derivation
- Electromagnetic Field Transformations
- Field Tensor
- Frame
- Gravitational Potential Energy Formula Derivation
- Inertial Frame
- Inertial Reference Frames
- Kinetic Energy
- Kinetic Energy Formula Derivation
- Length Contraction
- Lorentz Factor
- Lorentz Transformations
- Magnetism as a Relativistic Effect
- Mass-Energy Equivalence
- Massless Particles
- Minkowski Metric
- Minkowski Space
- Moving Clocks
- Newtonian Kinetic Energy Formula Derivation
- Nuclear Energy
- Particle Creation
- Photon Energy
- Potential Energy
- Potential Energy Formula Derivation
- Principle of Relativity
- Proper Length
- Proper Time
- Reference Frames
- Relativistic Electrodynamics
- Relativistic Kinetic Energy Formula Derivation
- Relativistic Momentum
- Relativistic Momentum and Energy
- Relativity Principle
- Rest Energy
- Simultaneity
- Time Dilation
- Twin Paradox