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History 181B:  Modern Physics
Class 17 (2/23/01) 
Special relativity
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Outline Reconciling Newtonian mechanics and Maxwellian EM
     Reference frames:  an experiment
     Reference frames:  definitions
     Applied to Newtonian mechanics
     Applied to Maxwellian EM

Einstein takes up the matter (begin)
     A hierarchy of questions
Names and terms 
Primary Secondary
(reference) frame
inertial (reference) frame
"On the electrodynamics of moving bodies" (1905)

The pages missing from the reader are available here:  pp.142, 143 (from "Electrodynamics" paper), 36, 37 (from "Autobiographical notes").
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