A Primer of Special relativity

  • Pre-Einstein Relativity
  • Ether, the Myth and the Truth
  • Lorentz Transformations and Some Consequences
  • Relativity of Simultaneity, Colocality, Etc.
  • Relativity Theory of Some Optical Effects
  • Mass, Momentum and Energy
    • Variation of Mass with Velocity
    • Dynamics of a Particle
    • Mass Energy Relationship
  • Relativistic Mechanics
  • Four-Vectors
    • Space-time Continuum (Minkowski Space)
    • Four-Vectors
    • Some Important Four-Vectors
    • Interval Between Two Events
  • Relativity and Electromagnetism
    • Charge Density and Current Density
    • Interdependence of Electric and Magnetic Fields
    • Transformation of Electric and Magnetic Fields
    • Electric and Magnetic Fields of a Uniformly Moving Charge