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Basic Physical Principles

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We start with a definition. Which concept is connected to the term

theory of relativity?

It is about the theory of the dependence or the invariance, as the case may be, of physical statements on the reference system of the observer. In particular, the

special theory of relativity

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Nolting, W. (2017). Basic Physical Principles. In: Theoretical Physics 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44371-3_1

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