Tag: Albert Einstein
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The Equivalence Principle & Black Holes
The equivalence principle is one of the laws of nature and it is connected with the nature of gravitation. In general relativity theory, the equivalence principle states that a gravitational field is locally equivalent to an accelerated frame. To be precise, it says that a freely falling observer or system will not experience the effects…
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Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity
Einstein special theory of relativity is based on two assumptions: The first proposition asserts that all the laws of physics, those dealing with electricity and magnetism, optics, mechanics, thermodynamics, etc. will have the same mathematical form or be covariant in all coordinate frames moving with constant velocity relative to one another. This postulate is a…