Special relativity was described by Albert Einstein in a paper published on 26 September 1905 titled "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies". Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism appeared to be … 詳細

Reference frames and relative motion
Reference frames play a crucial role in relativity theory. The term reference frame as used here is an … 詳細

Alternative approaches to special relativity
Einstein consistently based the derivation of Lorentz invariance (the essential core of special relativity) on just the two basic principles of relativity and light-speed invariance. He wrote:
The insight fundamental … 詳細

Dragging effects
In 1850, Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault independently established that light travels more slowly in water than in air, thus validating a … 詳細

Einstein discerned two fundamental propositions that seemed to be the most assured, regardless of the exact validity of the (then) known laws of either mechanics or electrodynamics. … 詳細

The consequences of special relativity can be derived from the Lorentz transformation equations. These transformations, and hence special relativity, lead to different physical predictions than … 詳細

Section Consequences derived from the Lorentz transformation dealt strictly with kinematics, the study of the motion of points, bodies, and … 詳細