Brian Blais’ Homemade Guide to Special Relativity
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It is then easy to derive the well-known Lorentz transformation equations, those equations which allow us to convert between events measured in one frame to those measured in the other. Two observers in different frames may not measure the same events at the same place or time, but they must agree on all of the laws of physics regarding those events in order for the principle of relativity to hold.
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