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Introducing special relativity / W.S.C. Williams

This textbook introduces special relativity for undergraduate physics students, covering fundamentals such as time dilation, relativistic energy, and momentum. It examines the Lorentz transformation and reviews key experiments in the development of 20th-century physics.

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