Introduction to the Theory of Relativity

Posted July 27, 2003 to Technology category.

A series of elementary, informal, and almost equation-free articles descibing the Theory of Relativity in physics.

  1. Part I: History This described the history of ideas in the development of relativity.
  2. Part II: Special Relativity This described Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.
  3. Part III: General Relativity This gives at least a taste of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which extends the Special Theory to cases involving acceleration and gravity.
  4. Part IV: Implications, Controversies, and Miscellany This will address implications of the Theory of Relativity, controversies both old and modern, experimental evidence, and anything else that isn't covered in the first three installments.

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