Special and General Relativity
摘要
In this chapter we review the main results of the theory of special relativity, which was developed by Einstein in 1905. Special relativity has a wide range of consequences which have been confirmed by experiments. Among them, the universal speed limit, the length contraction, the time dilation, the mass-energy equivalence, and the formulas of relativistic dynamics. For the sake of completeness, in the last section we briefly discuss the theory of general relativity, that is the geometric theory of gravitation formulated by Einstein in 1916.