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Optical Phenomena

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In this chapter we will examine some phenomena related to light, from the point of view of the Special Theory of Relativity.

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Christodoulides, C. (2016). Optical Phenomena. In: The Special Theory of Relativity. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25274-2_5

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