Special Theory of Relativity
V. A. Ugarov


The book was translated from the Russian by Yuri Atanov and was first published by Mir in 1979.

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Contents

CONTENTS
Preface 5
Chapter 1. CLASSICAL MECHANICS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY  11
Chapter 2 THE EINSTEIN POSTULATES THE INTERVAL BETWEEN EVENTS. THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION 38
Chapter 3. CONSEQUENCES OF THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION.THE CLASSIFICATION OF INTERVALS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSALITY. ΤΗΕ Κ CALCULUS 71
Chapter 4. ΤΗΕ FOUR-DIMENSΙONAL SPACE-TIME 117
Chapter 5. RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS OF Α PARTlCLE 133
Chapter 6. THE MAXWELL THEORY IN Α RELATIVISTIC FORM. 180
Chapter 7. OPTICAL PHENOMENA AND THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY 258
Chapter 8. ON CERTAIN PARADOXES OF THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY 286
SUPPLEMENΤ 317
ΜΑΙΝ EVENΤS RELAΤED ΤΟ ΤΗΕ HISΤORY OF ΤΗΕ SΤR 361
Appendix Ι 362
Bibliography to Appendix Ι 393
Appendix II.
Τhe basic formulae of electrodynamics in the Gaussian system 394
Bibliography 399
Index 403