Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
1 Special relativity
1.1 Fundamental principles of special relativity （SR） theory
1.2 Definition of an inertial observer in SR
1.3 New units
1.4 Spacetime diagrams
1.5 Construction of the coordinates used by another observer
1.6 Invariance of the interval
1.7 Invariant hyperbolae
1.8 Particularly important results
1.9 The lorentz transformation
1.10 The velocity-composition law
1.11 Paradoxes and physical intuition
1.12 Further reading
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