relativity

(noun)

The state of being relative to something else.

Related Terms

Examples of relativity in the following topics:

  • Relative

  • Relative and Interrogative

  • Relative

  • Relative Frequency Distributions

    • A relative frequency is the fraction or proportion of times a value occurs.
    • The third column should be labeled Relative Frequency.
    • Cumulative relative frequency (also called an ogive) is the accumulation of the previous relative frequencies.
    • To find the cumulative relative frequencies, add all the previous relative frequencies to the relative frequency for the current row.
    • This graph shows a relative frequency histogram.

  • Relative Deprivation Approach

    • Social scientists have cited 'relative deprivation' as a potential cause of social movements and deviance.
    • Social scientists, particularly political scientists and sociologists, have cited 'relative deprivation' (especially temporal relative deprivation) as a potential cause of social movements and deviance.
    • A specific form of relative deprivation is relative poverty.
    • A measure of relative poverty defines poverty as being below some relative poverty line, such as households who earn less than 20% of the median income.
    • Discuss the concepts of relative and absolute deprivation as they relate to social movements

  • Einstein's Postulates

    • Special relativity is based on Einstein's two postulates: the Principle of Relativity and the Principle of Invariant Light Speed.
    • The Principle of Invariant Light Speed: The speed of light c is a constant, independent of the relative motion of the source and observer.
    • Einstein accepted the result of the experiment and incorporated it in his theory of relativity.
    • Imagine that you can throw a baseball at a speed v (relative to you).
    • His work on relativity, gavity, quantum mechanics, and statistical physics revolutionized physics.

  • Relative Minor and Major Keys

    • A minor key is called the relative minor of the major key that has the same key signature.
    • Even though they have the same key signature, a minor key and its relative major sound very different.
    • It is easy to predict where the relative minor of a major key can be found.
    • What are the relative majors of the minor keys in Figure 4.23?
    • C minor is the relative minor of E flat major.

  • Gallilean-Newtonian Relativity

    • In this context it is sometimes called Newtonian relativity.
    • Galilean relativity can be shown as follows.
    • Suppose S' is in relative uniform motion to S with velocity v.
    • It is this simple but crucial result that implies Galilean relativity.
    • But it is assumed to hold in absolute space, therefore Galilean relativity holds.

  • Summary

  • Sampling Distributions and Statistic of a Sampling Distribution

    • You can think of a sampling distribution as a relative frequency distribution with a great many samples.
    • (See Sampling and Data for a review of relative frequency).
    • The results are in the relative frequency table shown below.
    • If you let the number of samples get very large (say, 300 million or more), the relative frequency table becomes a relative frequency distribution.