Elementary Approach to Special Relativity

1. Front Matter

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2. The Discovery of the Ether

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3. The Ether and the Wave Equation

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4. The Physical Elements of the Special Theory of Relativity

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5. Where Does the Wave Equation Come From?

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6. The Wave Equation and the Third Axiom

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7. Lattice and the Continuum

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8. The Crystalline Solid—Dislocations

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9. The sine-Gordon Equation of a Dislocation

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10. Natural Measuring-Rods and Clocks

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11. Measuring-Rods and Clocks in Motion

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12. A Clock Paradox

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13. The Measurement of the Critical Velocity

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14. The Lorentz Transformation

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15. The Linear Approximation of Special Relativity

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16. The Principle of Relativity: The Lost Crystal

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17. Two Axiomatic Systems for Special Relativity

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18. The Twin Paradox

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19. The Doppler Effect

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20. Aberration

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    Pages 215-218

This book presents an alternative representation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, which makes Special Relativity much more comprehensible. Moreover, one will come across a fundamental relationship between the Special Theory of Relativity and the mechanics of space lattice. In all previous formulations, the Einsteinian special principle of relativity, in one or the other form is used as the starting point for Special Relativity. In correspondence to this principle, one takes it as granted apriori, that all observers independent of their uniform motion to each other measure one and the same propagation velocity of a light signal.  This book is thought of as a lecture for physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists and concentrates on the students of these fields. The book should reach a broad circle of interested readers from the fields of natural sciences and philosophy and provide and invigorating experience for engineers.

• Special Theory of Relativity
• Wave Equation
• Lattice and the Continuum
• Clock Paradox
• Sine-Gordon Equation
• Twin Paradox
• Eigen Stresses
• Plastic Deformation
• Tachyon Collisions

• Berlin, Germany

  Helmut Günther

Helmut Günther was professor at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences for Mathematics and Physics until 2005 and currently teaches relativity theory at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

 

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