Special relativity/Definition

From Citizendium
< Special relativity
Revision as of 03:26, 22 May 2017 by imported>Harald van Lintel (improved and corrected definition, see Talk)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is developing and not approved.
 Main Article
 Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special_relativity/Definition&printable=yes
A definition or brief description of Special relativity.

Theory of the effects of motion on observations of things such as length, time, mass and energy. The theory is based on the postulates that all laws of physics are the same in all inertial reference systems, and that the vacuum speed of light is a universal constant, independent of the speed of the source.

Retrieved from "https://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special_relativity/Definition&oldid=682183"