2011/08/03 by Andrey Grozin, Grozin, Andrey
Engineering · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Theoretical and Applied Studies in Material Sciences and Geometry #FOS: Physical sciences #Medical and Biological Sciences #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph) #physics.pop-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1108.0842
18 pages; v2: 20 pages, 2 problems added; v3: 2 figures added, small text improvements; v4: 2 new appendices, 25 pages
openalex publication_date 2011/08/03 · arxiv created 2015/05/30 · arxiv updated 2015/06/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A modern elementary introduction to special relativity for advanced school children or first-year university students, in Russian. I try to demonstrate that relativity does not contradict common sense; on the contrary, it follows from common sense logically. I discuss Minkowski space-time geometry in some detail. Geometrical approach, with few simple formulas but many pictures, makes results of the theory intuitively obvious.