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Most Common Misunderstandings About Special Relativity

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Scientific Paper
TitleMost Common Misunderstandings About Special Relativity
Author(s)Umberto Bartocci
KeywordsSpecial Relativity
Published1999

Abstract

  1. Introduction
  2. What does "special" mean?
  3. Sagnac effect
  4. The light?s speed for non-inertial observers
  5. The Principle of (Special) Relativity and the "twins paradox"
  6. Roemer observations
  7. Bradley aberration
  8. Is it true that electromagnetism is relativistic? That "Classical Physics" is the "limit" of SR for low speeds?