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Derivation of special relativity from Maxwell and Newton

Published:2008-01-24 Issue:1871 Volume:366 Page:1861-1865
ISSN:1364-503X
Container-title:Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
language:en
Short-container-title:Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

Author:

Dunstan D.J¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics, Queen Mary, University of LondonLondon E1 4NS, UK

Abstract

Special relativity derives directly from the principle of relativity and from Newton's laws of motion with a single undetermined parameter, which is found from Faraday's and Ampère's experimental work and from Maxwell's own introduction of the displacement current to be the − c −2 term in the Lorentz transformations. The axiom of the constancy of the speed of light is quite unnecessary. The behaviour and the mechanism of the propagation of light are not at the foundations of special relativity.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics

Link

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2007.2195

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