Basics of Special Theory of Relativity

Author(s)
Upendra B. Mahatme
Department of Physics, K. Z. S. Science College, Bramnhi-Kalmeshwar, R.T.M. Nagpur University, 441501, India.

ISBN 978-81-967401-1-5 (Print)
ISBN 978-81-967401-0-8 (eBook)
DOI: 10.9734/bpi/mono/978-81-967401-1-5

This book includes the frame of reference, Inertial and non-inertial frames, Galilean transformation equations, Galilean invariance, Michelson-Morley experiment and its negative results, Postulates of the special theory of relativity, Lorentz transformations, Length contraction, Time dilation, Velocity addition theorem, Variation of mass with velocity, Mass energy equivalence.

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