1. Robert J. Hannon, Einstein's 1905 Derivation of His Transformations of Coordinates and Times

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Volume 15: Pages 3-4, 2002

Einstein's 1905 Derivation of His Transformations of Coordinates and Times

Robert J. Hannon

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Einstein's 1905 derivation of his “transformations of coordinates and times,” presented in Section I3 of his “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” in The Principle of Relativity (Dover Publications, New York, 1952), is mathematically analyzed and shown to be invalid.

Keywords: systems of coordinates, function, derivative, Einstein's theory of special relativity

Received: June 19, 1998; Published online: December 15, 2008