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-format: rst
-categories: physics
-toc: no
-...
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-===========================
Special Relativity
===========================
-.. warning:: This is a rough work in progress!! Likely to be factual errors,
+Warning: This is a rough work in progress!! Likely to be factual errors,
poor grammar, etc.
-.. note:: Most of this content is based on a 2002 Caltech course taught by
- Kip Thorn [PH237]_
+References: Most of this content is based on a 2002 Caltech course taught by
+ Kip Thorn [PH237]
As opposed to general relativity, special relativity takes place in a *flat*
Minkowski space time: a 4-space with three spatial dimensions and one time
dimension.
--------------- -------- ---------
-Index notation Variable Type
--------------- -------- ---------
- $x^0$ $t$ Time
- $x^1$ $x$ Spatial
- $x^2$ $y$ Spatial
- $x^3$ $z$ Spatial
--------------- -------- ---------
+---------------- ----------- ---------
+Index notation Variable Type
+---------------- ----------- ---------
+ $x^0$ $t$ Time
+
+ $x^1$ $x$ Spatial
+
+ $x^2$ $y$ Spatial
+
+ $x^3$ $z$ Spatial
+---------------- ----------- ---------
Separations
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