An Educational Reconstruction of Special Relativity Theory for Secondary Education

The Special Theory of Relativity

Chapter 1 The special theory of relativity

1905 is often described as Einstein’s annus mirabilis: a wonderful year in which he came up with three remarkable ideas. These were the Brownian motion in fluids, the photoelectric effect and the special theory of relativity. Each of these was of a basic nature and also had a wide impact on physics. In this chapter we will be concerned with special relativity, which was arguably the most fundam...

Logical analysis of special relativity theory

Here we outline an approach to a logical analysis of relativity theory conducted purely in first order logic (for methodological reasons). Here we concentrate on special relativity, but in a more extensive work referred to here as [2], some steps are made in the direction of generalizing the present approach towards general relativity. In [2] we build up variants of relativity theory as “compet...

Spread theory of the special theory of relativity

The transformation of space-time xμ and xμ ′ in the two inertial reference frames ∑

Maxwell's electromagnetic theory and special relativity.

This paper presents a brief history of electromagnetic theory from ancient times up to the work of Maxwell and the advent of Einstein's special theory of relativity. It is divided into five convenient periods and the intention is to describe these developments for the benefit of a lay scientific audience and with the minimum of technical detail.