# Relativity for Accelerators

- Institution: CERN
- Department: CAS - CERN Accelerator School
- Speaker: Frank Tecker
- Year: 2026
- Level: Graduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics, Earth and environment
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3025940)
- Licence: [CERN](https://copyright.web.cern)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The goal of this lecture is to introduce the basic concepts of special relativity without overloading formulas. The theory of special relativity, originally proposed by Albert Einstein in his famous 1905 paper, has profoundly affected our view of physics, space, and time. This lecture briefly introduces the concepts behind special relativity, including length contraction, time dilation, the Galilean and Lorentz transformations, relativistic kinematics, energy and momentum, practical application of the theory and more.

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## Lectures

1. [Relativity for Accelerators](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3025940/6a47ddc903b3), 50 min (CERN's player)