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Hey guys just having trouble gettin a concise piece of writing explaining this dot point.

Can anyone sum this one up in a few lines?

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the speed of light is constant for all observers regardless of their frame of referrence
 

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lol mee understands now, found a nice summary, thanks for your help aye :D
 

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stoydgen said:
lol mee understands now, found a nice summary, thanks for your help aye :D
I know your the one tha asked the qn. but u mind sharing the answer with us all boof-head?
 

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Err.. name calling won't get a young mind like yourself anywhere... but to failure unless i post the answer?

Alrighty then anyways basically it is not possible in an inertial frame of reference to detect uniform velocity without referring to another frame of reference.

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i believe this dot pt refers more to the galilean relativity originally theorised which einstein built on, ie laws of mechanics applying in all inertial states and that no inertial frame of ref. is more correct than the other etc etc
 

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Yep, all those forms of relativity are required, because it ends up with the fact that any experiment performed in an inertial FOR will not determine whether that frame is moving or still (without reference to a fixed outside point), and then also the fact that if the aether existed and was stationary in space, then you could perform an experiment that measured the speed of light to determine whether you were moving or not - hence both the definition of relativity as the inability to distinguish between motion and lack of it in an inertial frame, as well as a recourse to the fact that the basic laws of physics (and hence principle of relativity as defined above) hold in inertial frames, are useful.
 

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Okay so lemme get this straight:

Galilean Relativity
- The laws of mechanics are same for both an observer moving at uniform velocity or at rest.
- No inertial frame of reference of reference is prefered over the other.

Newtonian Relativity
- No mechanical experiment performed wholly within one frame can determine whether that frame is moving with constant velocity or is at rest.

Poincaré's Relativity
- ALL laws of physics are the same for both a frame at rest or a frame in uniform velocity.
- an extension of Newton's relativity

Einstein's Special Relativity
- The laws of physics are the same for all inertial frames of reference.
- The speed of light is constant and is indepedent of the speed of an observer.

Einstein's General Relativity
- The laws of physics are the same for ALL frames of reference, both Inertial and non-intertial

My god there's been alot of relativity throughout the years...
 

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