Principle of relativity - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Principle Of Relativity: Encyclopedia Ii - Principle Of Relativity - General Relativity
When accelerated motion is involved, there are phenomena that will allow an observer to establish a zero point, there are phenomena that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Principle Of Relativity: Encyclopedia Ii - Principle Of Relativity - Galilean Relativity
Historically, the first principle of relativity that was formulated was a principle of relativity of uniform motion suggested by the obse...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frame Of Reference: Encyclopedia - Frame Of Reference
A frame of reference is the perspective from which a system is observed. In physics, it provides a set of axes relative to which an obser...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frame Of Reference: Encyclopedia Ii - Frame Of Reference - Examples
For a simple example, consider two people standing, facing each other on either side of a North-South street. A car drives past them head...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lorentz Transformation: Encyclopedia Ii - Lorentz Transformation - History
The transformations were first discovered and published by Joseph Larmor in 1897, although Woldemar Voigt had published a slightly differ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symmetry In Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - Symmetry In Physics - Continuous Symmetries
The two examples of rotational symmetry described above - spherical and cylindrical - are each instances of continuous symmetry. These ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frame Of Reference: Encyclopedia Ii - Frame Of Reference - Examples
For a simple example, consider two people standing, facing each other on either side of a North-South street. A car drives past them head...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symmetry In Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - Symmetry In Physics - Symmetry Groups
Many of the important transformations describing physical symmetries form a group. This has led to group theory being one of the areas of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lorentz Transformation: Encyclopedia Ii - Lorentz Transformation - Lorentz And Poincaré Groups
The composition of two Lorentz transformations is a Lorentz transformation and the set of all Lorentz transformations with the operation ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symmetry In Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - Symmetry In Physics - Conservation Laws And Noether's Theorem
Main articles: Noether's theorem, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{ ... See also:Symmetry in physics, Symmetry in physics - Sy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Relativity: Encyclopedia - Relativity
Relativity may refer to: Physics Principle of relativity, developed by Galileo, the postulate that the laws of physics are the same fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lorentz Transformation: Encyclopedia Ii - Lorentz Transformation - Lorentz Transformation For Frames In Standard Configuration
Given two observers S and S', each using a Cartesian coordinate system to measure space and time intervals, and , assume that the coordi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symmetry In Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - Symmetry In Physics - Discrete Symmetries
Main articles: Discrete symmetry, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lorentz Transformation: Encyclopedia Ii - Lorentz Transformation - General Boosts
For a boost in an arbitrary direction with velocity , it is convenient to decompose the spatial vector into components perpendicular and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frame Of Reference: Encyclopedia Ii - Frame Of Reference - Overview
Two observers may choose to use different frames of reference to investigate a common system. The measurements that an observer makes abo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symmetry In Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - Symmetry In Physics - Local And Global Symmetries
Main articles: global symmetry, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]], and [[{{{5}}}]] Ma ... See also:Symmetry in physics,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lorentz Transformation: Encyclopedia Ii - Lorentz Transformation - Lorentz And Poincaré Groups
The composition of two Lorentz tranformations is a Lorentz transformation and the set of all Lorentz transformations with the operation o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symmetry In Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - Symmetry In Physics - Symmetry As Invariance
A symmetry of a physical system is a (physical or mathematical) feature of the system that is preserved under some change. Some examples ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henri Poincaré: Encyclopedia Ii - Henri Poincaré - Work
Poincaré made many contributions to different fields of applied mathematics such as: celestial mechanics, fluid mechanics, optics, elect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lorentz-fitzgerald Contraction Hypothesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Lorentz-fitzgerald Contraction Hypothesis - Relationship To Special Relativity
Henri Poincaré was not at first entirely satisfied with FitzGerald's hypothesis. In Science and Hypothesis he commented on the Lorentz c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henri Poincaré: Encyclopedia Ii - Henri Poincaré - Life
Poincaré was born on April 29, 1854 in Cité Ducale neighborhood, Nancy, France into an influential family (Belliver, 1956). His father ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henri Poincaré: Encyclopedia Ii - Henri Poincaré - Honors
Awards Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of London (1900) Bruce Medal (1911) Named after him Poincaré crater on the Moon A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henri Poincaré: Encyclopedia Ii - Henri Poincaré - Character
Poincaré's work habits have been compared to a bee flying from flower to flower. Poincaré was interested in the way his mind worked; he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henri Poincaré: Encyclopedia Ii - Henri Poincaré - Publications
Poincaré's major contribution to algebraic topology was Analysis situs (1895), which was the first real systematic look at topology. He ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henri Poincaré: Encyclopedia Ii - Henri Poincaré - Publications
Poincaré's major contribution to algebraic topology was Analysis situs (1895), which was the first real systematic look at topology. He ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henri Poincaré: Encyclopedia Ii - Henri Poincaré - Character
Poincaré's work habits have been compared to a bee flying from flower to flower. Poincaré was interested in the way his mind worked; he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henri Poincaré: Encyclopedia Ii - Henri Poincaré - Life
Poincaré was born on April 29, 1854 in Cité Ducale neighborhood, Nancy, France into an influential family (Belliver, 1956). His father ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henri Poincaré: Encyclopedia Ii - Henri Poincaré - Work
Among the specific topics he contributed to are the following: algebraic topology the theory of analytic functions of several complex va...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henri Poincaré: Encyclopedia Ii - Henri Poincaré - Philosophy
Poincaré had the opposite philosophical views of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege, who believed that mathematics were a branch of logi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henri Poincaré: Encyclopedia Ii - Henri Poincaré - Honors
Awards Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of London (1900) Bruce Medal (1911) Named after him Poincaré crater on the Moon A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Principle Of Relativity: Encyclopedia Ii - Principle Of Relativity - Special Relativity
If one assumes that both the Maxwell equations are valid, and that Galilean transformation is the appropriate transformation, then it sho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Principle Of Relativity: Encyclopedia Ii - Principle Of Relativity - Galilean Relativity
Galileo's principle of relativity said that every choice of a zero point of velocity, a choice necessary in order to perform a calculatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Principle Of Relativity: Encyclopedia Ii - Principle Of Relativity - Special Relativity
If one assumes that both the Maxwell equations are valid, and that Galilean transformation is the appropriate transformation, then it sho...   » Read the article