In this chapter we shall give a short introduction to the fundamental principles of the special theory of relativity and deduce some of the consequences of the theory.
The special theory of relativity was presented by Albert Einstein in 1905. It was founded on two postulates.
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Grøn, Ø. (2009). The Special Theory of Relativity. In: Lecture Notes on the General Theory of Relativity. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 772. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88134-8_2
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