• the principle of relativity is the requirement that the equations describing the laws of physics have the same form in all admissible frames of reference...
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    inertial frames of reference (that is, frames of reference with no acceleration). This is known as the principle of relativity. The speed of light in vacuum...
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  • The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated physics theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity, proposed...
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    consequence of their fundamental identity.: 32  The equivalence principle can be considered an extension of the principle of relativity, the principle that the...
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    In physics, the relativity of simultaneity is the concept that distant simultaneity – whether two spatially separated events occur at the same time –...
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  • Mach's principle.[page needed] There is a fundamental issue in relativity theory: if all motion is relative, how can we measure the inertia of a body...
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  • General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity, and as Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published...
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  • Galilean relativity states that the laws of motion are the same in all inertial frames of reference. Galileo Galilei first described this principle in 1632...
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  • to the principle of relativity of Galileo Galilei restating it precisely for mechanical systems.: 15  This can be stated: as far as the laws of mechanics...
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  • postulate (principle of relativity) The laws of physics take the same form in all inertial frames of reference. 2. Second postulate (invariance of c) As measured...
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  • two main postulates: The principle of relativity: The form of a physical law is the same in any inertial frame (a frame of reference that is not accelerating...
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    General relativity is a theory of gravitation developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. The theory of general relativity says that the observed...
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  • also produced negative results and (guided by Henri Poincaré's principle of relativity) Lorentz tried in 1899 and 1904 to expand his theory to all orders...
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  • in fact moving, relative to one another. According to the principle of special relativity, all physical laws look the same in all inertial reference...
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  • However, this resulted in a limitation inherent in special relativity: the principle of relativity could only apply to inertial reference frames. To address...
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    Albert Einstein presented the theories of special relativity and general relativity in publications that either contained no formal references to previous...
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    Henri Poincaré (category French relativity theorists)
    Charles (1 September 1964). "Henri Poincaré and the Principle of Relativity". American Journal of Physics. 32 (9): 672–678. Bibcode:1964AmJPh..32..672S...
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  • General relativity is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915, with contributions by many others after 1915...
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  • Tests of general relativity serve to establish observational evidence for the theory of general relativity. The first three tests, proposed by Albert Einstein...
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    Hermann Minkowski (category German relativity theorists)
    and Hermann Weyl, The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs. Space and Time – Minkowski's Papers on Relativity, Minkowski Institute...
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    Alfred Bucherer (category Fellows of the American Physical Society)
    validity of the Principle of relativity, i.e. that all descriptions of electrodynamic effects should only contain the relative motion of bodies, not of the...
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    Hendrik Lorentz (category Relativity theorists)
    calls the principle of relativity, I cannot speak here of the many highly interesting applications which Einstein has made of this principle. His results...
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    transverse Doppler effect. The fourth, a consequence of special relativity, developed the principle of mass–energy equivalence, expressed in the equation...
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  • special relativity, which was based on a radical new application of the relativity principle in connection with the constancy of the speed of light. In...
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    Twin paradox (category Special relativity)
    moving, and so, as a consequence of an incorrect and naive application of time dilation and the principle of relativity, each should paradoxically find...
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  • two-body problem in general relativity (or relativistic two-body problem) is the determination of the motion and gravitational field of two bodies as described...
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    Length contraction (category Special relativity)
    velocity approaches the speed of light, the effect becomes prominent. The principle of relativity (according to which the laws of nature are invariant across...
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    definition of simultaneity; if we discard this assumption, then the conflict between the law of propagation of light in vacuo and the principle of relativity (developed...
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    which observes the mediocrity principle, the anthropic principle, the principle of relativity and the cosmological principle. Other well-known principles...
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    principle of relativity and the principle of stationary action in mechanics can be used to derive Maxwell's equations, and vice versa. The theory of special...
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