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Special Relativity David W. Hogg [PDF 53p]

Special Relativity David W. Hogg [PDF 53p]

This note covers the following topics: Principles of relativity, Time dilation and length contraction, Geometry of spacetime, The Lorentz transformation, Causality and the interval, Relativistic mechanics.

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