The Basic Difference Between the Special and General Theories of Relativity

question 104

Multiple Choice

The basic difference between the special and general theories of relativity is that

• A) the first deals with electricity and the second with magnetism.
• B) the first deals with nonaccelerated observers and the second deals with accelerated observers.
• C) the first assumes that the observers are at rest and the second allows the observers to move.
• D) the first deals only with accelerated observers and the second deals with nonaccelerated observers.
• E) actually there is no important difference between them.

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