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- An Intuitive Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation: It is advantageous to define time with motion and to create the simplest mathematical clocks possible. Here is an algebra-based derivation of the Lorentz transformation that emphasizes the meaning of coordinates and the arbitrariness of how to synchronize clocks.
- C-Ship: A short overview of special relativity, filled with relativistic ray traced images. Explains relativistic effects using a theoretical spaceship.
- How Do You Add Velocities in Special Relativity?: Here is the formula for adding velocities in special relativity when motion occurs in a single direction.
- How Stuff Works: Special Relativity: The major principles of special relativity (SR) are discussed in an accessible way, via 5 segments, to help you understand the lingo and theories involved.
- Is Travel Faster Than Light Possible?: From: Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Physics
- Jim Doyle's Special Relativity Pages: A growing collection of pages on special relativity, including Special Relativity in under 15 Minutes!
- Minkowski spacetime: Minkowski's spacetime concept explained.[PDF]
- Relatively Simple: Special Relativity made Relatively Simple offers information and experiments about special relativity.
- Relativistic Contraction: Those who teach special relativity consider it a very important exercise to have students decide how to measure the length of a rapidly moving object.
- Relativity Tutorial: An introduction to relativity using space-time diagrams.
- Relativity in its Historical Context: The discovery of special relativity was inevitable, given the momentous discoveries that preceded it.
- Special Relativity: This is chapter two of Christoph Schiller's 1000 page walk through the whole of physics, from classical mechanics to relativity, electrodynamics, thermodynamics, quantum theory, nuclear physics and unification. 61 pages.
- Special Relativity: A brief overview of the theory of special relativity, and how it pertains to particles at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator)
- Special Relativity: A unit for an online relativity textbook explaining special relativistic mathematical physics.
- Special Relativity Lecture Notes: A standard introduction to special relativity where explanations are based on pictures called spacetime diagrams.
- Special relativity article: From the free encyclopedia Wikipedia.
- Traveling the universe at constant acceleration: Suppose you took a trip across the universe in a spaceship, accelerating all the time at one Earth gravity g. How far would you travel in a given amount of time?
- University Lectures on Special Relativity: Lecture notes on Special Relativity, prepared by J. D. Cresser, Department of Physics, Macquarie University. 44 pages.
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