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Contents

• Inertial Reference Frames in Relative Motion
• Galilean Transformations
• Lorentz Transformations
• Lorentz Factor
• Lorentz Transformations for x’ and t’
• Interval Form of Lorentz Transformations
• Inverse Lorentz Transformations
• Calculation of Inverse Lorentz Transformations in Mathematica
• Derivation of Lorentz Transformations from the Postulates

Inertial Reference Frames in Relative Motion

Galilean Transformations

Lorentz Transformations

Lorentz Factor

Lorentz Transformations for x’ and t’

Interval Form of Lorentz Transformations

Inverse Lorentz Transformations

Calculation of Inverse Lorentz Transformations in Mathematica

Derivation of Lorentz Transformations from the Postulates