Relativity Theory
Papers
Books
- The
Age of Einstein by Frank W. K. Firk. This is a free introductory
book on the special and general theory of relativity.
- Electromagnetic Field
Theory by Bo Thide. This is a free graduate level textbook with a
chapter on special relativity and the relativistic formulation
of classical electrodynamics.
References
- W. Perret and G.B. Jeffery, The Principle of Relativity:
A collection of original memoirs on the special and general
theory of relativity, with notes by A. Sommerfeld, Dover
Publications, 1952.
This book contains translations of original papers by H.A. Lorentz,
A. Einstein, H. Minkowski, and H. Weyl. Einstein's famous
paper, On the electrodynamics of moving bodies, published
in Annalen der Physik, 17, 1905, is included.
- A. Einstein, Relativity: The special and the general
theory, Translated by Robert W. Lawson, Random House,
1961.
Written by Einstein himself, to provide a popular exposition for
"those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical
point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not
conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical
physics."