The Net Advance of Physics:
SPECIAL RELATIVITY

SPACETIME THEORIES: SPECIAL RELATIVITY:

• General: Introductory: Wedgbury 1995; Wright 2005;
  • The theory of relativity and the Pythagorean theorem by L. B. Okun [Physics Uspekhi 51, 622 (2008)] Although written at an "introductory" level, this is (like many of Okun's popular-science articles) really very sophisticated and worth the attention of people who may think they already know the material.
  • Relativity, the Special Theory, explained to Children (from 7 to 107 years old) by Charles-Michel Marle [2005]
  • Space Time Travel: Visualization of the Theory of Relativity Educational homepage of Ute Kraus and Corvin Zahn (Universität Hildesheim)
  • Teaching and learning special relativity theory in secondary and lower undergraduate education: A literature review by P. Alsten et al. [2020/11]

• General: Textbooks: Modern Relativity Page;
  • Problems in mechanics of particles and bodies by Yu. I. Belchenko et al. [2010/04] In Russian.
  • Symmetries and the fundamental forces of Nature I: Special Relativity by Luis A. Anchordoqui [2015/09] Introductory modern physics course using calculus.
  • Theory of Special Relativity by Nadia L. Zakamska [2015/11] Short undergraduate textbook, Johns Hopkins University.
  • Mechanics and special relativity: tutorial problems with solutions by Z. K. Silagadze [2017/11] 260 pp., in Russian.
  • Relativity by C. Arias Abad et al. [2023/01] 328 pp., covers both special and general theories.

• General: Brown no date; Hindmarsh 97/09; Carroll 97/12; Alvarez-G. and Vazquez-M. 2005/03; Will 2005/04; Silagadze 2007/08;
  • Relativistic Physics as Application of Geometric Algebra by Eckhard Hitzer [2005/01] This is a viXra paper, but the material is all standard and very well presented.
  • Non-Inertial Frames in Special and General Relativity by Luca Lusanna [2009]
  • Special relativity by Andrey Grozin [2011/08] In Russian, and aimed at "school children", who perhaps have a somewhat stronger background in Russia than in the US.
  • Classical Mechanics by D. G. C. McKeon [2012/08]
  • Relativistic Kinematics by Raghunath Sahoo [2013/12]
  • Energy-Momentum Tensors and Motion in Special Relativity by Domenico Giulini [2015/02]
  • Getting the Lorentz transformations without requiring an invariant speed by Andrea Pelissetto and M. Testa [American Journal of Physics 83, 338 (2015)]
  • A Graphical Introduction to Special Relativity Based on a Modern Approach to Minkowski Diagrams by Boxiang Liu and Thushara Perera [2015/08]
  • Velocity, acceleration and gravity in Einstein's relativity by Marek A. Abramowicz [2016/08]
  • Derivation of the Lorentz transformation without the use of Einstein's second postulate by Andrei Galiautdinov [2017/01]
  • Introduction to special relativity by E. Gianfelice-Wendt [2021/08]

• General: Examples: Silagadze 2006/05;

• Tests:
  • The experimental status of Special and General Relativity by Orfeu Bertolami and Jorge Páramos [2012/12]

• Tests: LORENTZ INVARIANCE: see also LORENTZ VIOLATION for theories which predict failure of invariance: Kostelecky 2000/05; Mewes 2002/12; Mattingly 2005/02;
  • The experimental status of Special and General Relativity by Orfeu Bertolami and Jorge Páramos [2012/12]

• Tests: LORENTZ INVARIANCE: ATOMIC SYSTEMS: Bluhm 2000/06;

• Tests: LORENTZ INVARIANCE: Re: NEUTRINOS: see SUPERLUMINAL NEUTRINOS

• Tests: LORENTZ INVARIANCE: Re: QUANTUM GRAVITY: Jacobson et al. 2004/04;

• Types: DOUBLY SPECIAL/VARYING SPEED OF LIGHT;

• Aspects: MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT; TACHYONS;

• Aspects: CONDENSED-MATTER ANALOGUE SYSTEMS: See also GRAPHENE)
  • Semirelativity in Semiconductors: A Review by Wlodek Zawadzki [2017/01]

• Aspects: LORENTZ GROUP:
  • Elements of Group Theory (Section 6), by Francisco Yndurain [2007/10]

• Aspects: PARADOXES: MANSURIPUR;

• Aspects: SIMULTANEITY:
  • What is time?: Thoughts of a physicist by G. Münster [2022/03]

• Aspects: TIME DILATION:
  • Do moving clocks slow down? by A. Alizzi et al. [2022/09]

• Aspects: TWIN PARADOX:
  • Herbert Dingle and the Twins by Kevin Brown. [History of the paradox.]
  • Do moving clocks slow down? by A. Alizzi et al. [2022/09]

• Aspects: VISUAL EFFECTS:
  • From the Lorentz Group to the Celestial Sphere by Blagoje Oblak [2015/08]

• Re: ANGULAR MOMENTUM:
  • Energy-Momentum Tensors and Motion in Special Relativity by Domenico Giulini [2015/02]

• Re: DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY:
  • Topics in Lorentz Geometry by Ivo Terek [2019/08]

• Re: ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR:
  • Energy-Momentum Tensors and Motion in Special Relativity by Domenico Giulini [2015/02]

THE NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS