Questions tagged [special-relativity]
The special theory of relativity describes the motion and dynamics of objects moving at significant fractions of the speed of light.
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What exactly is different about the slice of space and lightcone concept in special relativity?
In Sean Carroll's book on GR, in the very first chapter about SR, he mentions how the difference between Newtonian concepts of space and time, and the view put forward in SR is how there is an "...
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Where is the increased mass reserved based on Einstein's mass-energy equation?
Assume a huge parallel-plate capacitor with plates located at an infinite distance away from each other. If we tend to move a positively charged object ($+q$) with a rest mass of $m$ against the ...
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Experimental verifications of relativity “in the classical limit”? [closed]
Note: This question is pretty basic and therefore probably has been asked before in another form -- please let me know which question this is a duplicate of in that case. (I couldn't find it myself.)
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