Basic Relativity

An Introductory Essay

  • From Time Dilation to E0 = mc2
    • Reference Frames and Inertial Frames
    • The Optical Doppler-Effect and Time Dilation
    • The Relativity of Simultaneity
    • The Proper Time and the Twin Paradox
  • The Lorentz-Transformation
  • General Relativity
    • Gravitational and Inertial Mass
    • The Equivalence Principle.
    • The Meaning of the Relation m* = m
    • Locality of the Inertial Frames
    • The Weight
    • The GP-B Experiment