TITLE:
Heuristic Approach to Kinematics and Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
AUTHORS:
Leonid Filippov
KEYWORDS:
The Principle of Relativity, The Measurement Process, Lorentz Group, Doppler Effect, Mach’s Principle
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Mechanics,
Vol.6 No.3,
March
29,
2016
ABSTRACT: Relativity theory formulation is proposed, based not on the axiomatic postulation of its main principles but on their inference out of a thought experiment. With this approach, the experimentally observed independence of the speed of light from the motion of source and observer is a necessary consequence of the finiteness of propagation speed of all kinds of information. The mechanism of relativistic effects origination is described; the formulas of Lorentz transformations, Doppler quadratic effect, electromagnetic interaction and centrifugal force of inertia are derived.