Philosophical concept
Principle of relativity
The principle of relativity requires the laws of physics to retain the same form for observers within a specified class of reference frames.
- Works
- 7
- Passages
- 371
- Thinkers
- 1
- Traditions
- 1
Understand uses of the concept
The principle of relativity requires the laws of physics to retain the same form for observers within a specified class of reference frames.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 371 passages across 7 works, including Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel Lecture, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German Edition, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English Translation. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: principe de relativité, principle of relativity, Relativitätsprinzip
Works where the concept is identified
- Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel LectureAlbert Einstein · 14 passages
- Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German EditionAlbert Einstein · 76 passages
- Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English TranslationAlbert Einstein · 105 passages
- Sidelights on RelativityAlbert Einstein · 27 passages
- The Meaning of RelativityAlbert Einstein · 79 passages
- The Principle of Relativity: Selected Papers by EinsteinAlbert Einstein · 63 passages
- The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages