History of Topics in Special Relativity

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The project History of Topics in Special Relativity is going to give an overview on the historical development of concepts of special relativity. As such, it does not give a systematic history of special relativity (SR), but rather a history of the development of individual relativistic concepts used in that theory such as Lorentz transformation or proper acceleration.

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History of Topics in Special Relativity (edit)
Multiple chapter topics History of Lorentz transformations History of relativistic four vectors History of relativistic tensors Single page topics History of twin paradox History of time dilation History of three-acceleration transformation Müller's history of relativity


History of Lorentz transformation (edit)
Introduction Chapter 1: Most general Lorentz transformations Chapter 2: LT via imaginary orthogonal transformation Chapter 3: LT via hyperbolic functions Chapter 4: LT via velocity Chapter 5: LT via sphere transformation Chapter 6: LT via Cayley–Hermite transformation Chapter 7: LT via Cayley–Klein parameters, Möbius and spin transformations Chapter 8: LT via quaternions and hyperbolic numbers Chapter 9: LT via trigonometric functions Chapter 10: LT via squeeze mappings

History of 4-Vectors (edit)
History of Four-velocity History of Four-acceleration History of Four-momentum History of Four-current History of Four-potential History of Four-force (electromagnetism) History of Four-force (mechanics)

History of relativistic Tensors (edit)
History of Electromagnetic field tensor History of Electromagnetic stress-energy tensor History of Material stress-energy tensor

History of Topics in Special Relativity

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