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Relativity and the Camera: An Observational Approach to the Lorentz Formulae in Special Relativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

The following notes are the result of an attempt to gain some insight into the meaning of the Lorentz formulae, avoiding the use of technical terms such as frames of reference, coordinates, and point-events.

The hypothesis of Einstein that the velocity of light is a constant, independent of the relative velocity of the source and observer, is assumed throughout.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1938 

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