Einstein and Relativity

Special Relativity

Publication
  • Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper
  • English translation
  • Space and time
    Michelson-Morley experiment
  • Speed of the earth
  • Boats and rivers
  • Round trip times
  • Michelson interferometer
  • Ripples on water
    Transformations
  • Voigt transformation
  • Length contraction and time dilation
  • Example of time dilation
  • Diagram of time dilation
    Velocity addition
  • Velocity transformation
  • Examples
    Coulomb's law and magnetism
  • Contraction in a current carrying wire
  • Reverse direction
    Momentum and Energy
  • Other 4-vectors
  • Transformation
  • Momentum and energy

    • General Relativity

  • Principle of Equivalence
  • Time and gravitational mass
  • Black holes - Pierre-Simon Laplace
  • Black Holes - John Michel
  • Escape velocity