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Before publishing his General Theory of Relativity (GTR), Albert Einstein (1879–1950) published in 1905 a paper about the Special Theory of Relativity (STR) entitled “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” (for original German see [1] 1).
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At the end of this chapter the reader finds original sources in German as well as additional sources in English.
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Schobeiri, M.T. (2021). Special Theory of Relativity. In: Tensor Analysis for Engineers and Physicists - With Application to Continuum Mechanics, Turbulence, and Einstein’s Special and General Theory of Relativity . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35736-8_10
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