Special relativity for a general audience (no math knowledge required)
- Wikibooks: Special Relativity
- Einstein Light An award-winning, non-technical introduction (film clips and demonstrations) supported by dozens of pages of further explanations and animations, at levels with or without mathematics.
- Einstein Online Introduction to relativity theory, from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.
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- Lawrence Sklar (1992). Philosophy of Physics. Westview Press. ISBN 0813306256. http://books.google.com/books?id=L3b_9PGnkMwC&pg=PA74.
<<Table of Contents Special relativity (also known as the special theory of relativity or STR) is the physical theory of measurement in inertial frames of reference proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein (after the considerable and independent contributions of Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others) in the paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" | Next>> | Show All>>
