Albert Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity

  • Electrodynamics: 1890-1905
  • Einstein’s Philosophic Viewpoint in 1905
    • Assessing a Scientific Theory
    • On the Mechanical World-Picture
      • Assessment from the Viewpoint of “Confirmation by Experiment
      • Assessment from the Viewpoint of “Inner Perfection”
  • Analysis of Einstein’s Introductory Comments to “Zur Elektrodynamik Bewegter Körper”
  • Simultaneity and Time
  • Length and Time Are Relative Quantities
  • The Relativistic Transformations
  • The Relativity of Length and Time
  • The Theorem of Addition of Velocities
  • The Relativity of the Electric and Magnetic Fields
  • Doppler’s Principle and Stellar Aberration
  • Light Quanta, Radiation and Relativity
  • On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
    • Einstein’s §9: Macroscopic Charged Bodies
    • Einstein’s §10: Moving Microscopic Bodies
      • The Moving Electron’s Mas
      • The Moving Electron’s Kinetic Energy