4-acceleration 138
4-current 184
4-dimensional 118
4-force 141
4-momentum 141
4-potential 184
4-space-time 118
4-tensor 122 189
4-vector 120
4-vector of energy-momentum 153
4-velocity 134
4-wave vector 261
Aberration angle 103
Aberration of light 103 204
Abraham force 237
Abraham momentum 237
Abraham tensor 235
Absolute future 127
Absolute past 127
Absolute space 29
Absolute time 29
Anomalous Doppler effect 280
Antisymmetric tensor 380
Binding energy 159
Biot — Savart law 220
Cartesian coordinate system 12
Cartesian coordinates 12
Causality principle 92
Cause-and-effect cycle 300
Cause-and-effect relationship 92
Central force 24
Charge conservation law 181
Charge density 182
Charged particle, motion in a constant uniform electric field 164
Charged particle, motion in a constant uniform magnetic field 167
Cherenkov cone 284
Classical momentum of a particle 140
Classification of intervals 90
Clock paradox 303
Clock synchronization 42
Clock synchronization, relativity of 52
Colliding beams 173
Conductivity 209
Conductivity current 2
Conservation laws of relativistic mechanics 175
Conservative field, total energy of a particle in 156
Continuity equation 182
Contravariant components of a vector 387
Convection current 185 212
Convolution of tensor indices 375
Coordinate system 12
Coordinate transformation 16
Covariance of the system of Maxwell's equations 205
Covariant components of a vector 387
Current density 182 211
Current loop, dipole moment of 216
Cyclotronic frequency 167
Descartes — Snell law 329
Dipole moment of a current loop 216
Dis-synchronization of clocks 54
dispersion relation 248
Doppler effect 84 233 261
Doppler effect, anomalous 280
Doppler effect, radial 84 262
Doppler effect, transverse 87 264
Drag coefficient 246
Dual tensor 377
d’Alembert’s operator 374
Einstein's postulates 38
Elastic force 22
Electric field strength 188
Electric polarization 191
Electromagnetic field invariants 198
Electromagnetic field strength 190
Electromagnetic waves, phase velocity of 291
Energy of a particle 140
Energy-momentum-tension tensor 227
Equivalence of mass and energy 310
Ether 107 330
Eulerian angles 365
Event 11
Events, synchronism of 42 44
Faster-than-light velocity 287
Field of a uniformly moving charge 216
Field tensor 240
Fizeau experiment 31 97
force 21
Force, Abraham 237
Force, central 24
Force, elastic 22
Force, friction 22
Force, gravitational 22
Foucault experiment 26
Four-dimensional equation of motion 141
Four-dimensional field potential 241
Four-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space 118
Frequency dispersion 247
Galilean principle of relativity 19
Galilean transformation 15 18 319
Gauss — Ostrogradsky theorem 223 376
Geocentric frame 27
Gravitational theory 30 357
Hamiltonian function 154
Heliocentric frame 27
Induction tensor 240
Inertia, law of 25
Inertial reference frame 16 23 319
Instantaneous co-moving inertial frame 38
Instantaneous transition of interaction 24
Integrals of motion 177
Interaction of two moving charges 220
Interval between events 61
Interval between events, classification of 90
Invariance of equations 22
Invariance of proper time 135
Invariance of the interval between events 63
Invariants of electromagnetic field 198
Isotropy of space 14
K calculus 105
Kennedy — Thorndike experiment 311
kinetic energy 141
Kronecker delta 229 363
Law of conservation of the total energy 141
Law of inertia 25
Length, relativity of 74 113
Lifetime of muons 84
Light aberration 103 264
Light cone 127
| Light frequency variation on reflection 272
Light metre 63
Light quanta 276
Light, pressure of 270 278
Light-like interval 94
Line of force 200
Longitudinal” mass 353
Lorentz condition 182
Lorentz contraction 78 342
Lorentz force 147 182 199
Lorentz force density 199
Lorentz matrix 193 36
Lorentz transformation 52 59 63 66 70 114 320 367
Magnetic field strength 191
Magnetic induction 188
magnetization 215
Mass 21
Mass and energy, equivalence of 310
Mass defect 160
Mass tensor 353
Material constants 209
Material equations 208
Maxwell equations 181 206
Maxwell equations, covariance of the system of 205
Maxwell theory 181
Metric coefficients 119 359
Metric tensor 392
Michelson — Morley experiment 338
Michelson's interferometer 338
Minkowski diagram 187
Minkowski equations 209
Minkowski equations for moving media 208
Minkowski space 119
Minkowski tensor 234
Minkowski world 118
Motion of a charged particle in a constant uniform electric field 164
Motion of a charged particle in a constant uniform magnetic field 167
Motion of a rocket 170
Moving media, Minkowski equations for 208
Muons, lifetime of 84
Newton's first law 25
Newton's Third Law 25
Newtonian mechanics 13
Newton’s Second Law 21
Non-inertial reference frame 27 354
Observer 19
Origin of coordinates 13
Permeability 209
Permittivity 209
phase velocity 250 291
Phase velocity of electromagnetic waves 291
Photon 276
Photon rocket 172
Planck's constant 278
Plane wave limited in space 265
Polarization 215
Poynting vector 223 259
Pressure of light 270 2 8
Proper reference frame 153
Proper time 88 112
Proper time invariance 135
Proper-time interval 49
Pseudo-Euclidean plane 123
Pseudo-Euclidean space 118 120 391
Pseudo-Euclidean theorem 127
Radar method 105
Radial Doppler effect 84 262
Reaction motion in relativistic mechanics 170
Reference frame 14
Reflection of light from a moving mirror 274
Relative velocity 22 104
Relativistic equation of motion 146
Relativistic mechanics, conservation laws of 175
Relativistic mechanics, reaction motion in 170
Relativistic reference frame 41
Relativistic transformation of velocities 96
Relativistic velocity 33
Relativity of clock synchronization 52
Relativity of length 74 113
Relativity of simultaneity 74
Relativity of time intervals between events 83
Relativity, Galilean principle of 19
Rest energy 150
Rest mass 141
Rest mass of a system 157
Sagnac — Garress experiment 344
Scale hyperbola 129
Searchlight” effect 270
Signature 119
Simultaneity, relativity of 74
Skin effect 252
Space-like interval 93
Spatial dispersion 247
Stress tensor 383
Synchronism of events 42 44
Synchronization of clocks 42
Synchronization of clocks, relativity of 52
System of non-interacting particles 175
Tachyons 297
Tardyons 276
Tensor indices, convolution of 375
Thread-and-level paradox 292
Time interval between evenls, relativity of 83
Time-like interval 91
Tolal energy of a system 157
Total energy of a particle in a conservative field 156
Total energy, law of conservation of 141
Total momentum of a system 157
Train of waves 266
Transformation of electric and magnetic field components 192
Transformation of velocities, relativlstic 95
Transverse Doppler effect 87 264
Transverse" inass 353
Ultra-relativistic particles 155
Unidimensional motion due to a constant force 161
Uniformity of space 14
Uniformly accelerated motion 162
Vavilov — Cherenkov effect 280
Vavilov — Cherenkov radiation 237
Vector components, contravariant 387
Vector components, covariant 387
Velocity of light 24 36 39
Wave profile 61
World line 109 123
Zero rest mass 311
“Ether wind” 336
“Light clock” experiment 48
“Reactive” force 149
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