{"id":1803,"date":"2022-12-05T18:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2025-05-23T22:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:42:04","slug":"alessia-righi-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=1803","title":{"rendered":"Alessia Righi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Einstein&#8217;s Theory of Special Relativity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This thesis examines the topic of Einstein&#8217;s special relativity. Starting from Aristotle&#8217;s &#8216;locus naturalis&#8217; through Newton\u2019s laws of dynamics all the way to Maxwell\u2019s equations, the paper looks at the historical progress made in the human understanding of space and time, with a particular focus on the contradiction that brought Einstein to develop the relativity theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MATH 499 &#8211; Senior Capstone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connie Wilmarth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11:30am-Noon Bucher Room<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Einstein&#8217;s Theory of Special Relativity This thesis examines the topic of Einstein&#8217;s special relativity. Starting from Aristotle&#8217;s &#8216;locus naturalis&#8217; through Newton\u2019s laws of dynamics all the way to Maxwell\u2019s equations, the paper looks at the historical progress made in the human understanding of space and time, with a particular focus on the contradiction that brought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=1803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alessia Righi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[661,117,118,1075,848],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2022","tag-capstone","tag-math","tag-math-499","tag-righi-a","tag-wilmarth-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}