  The development of both special and general relativity is accomplished in a
series of 6 papers using a simple approach. The purpose is to explain the how
and why of relativity to a broad public, and to be useful for students of
physics by providing alternate ways to develop and view relativistic phenomena.
In this first paper, the rules for special relativity are developed to explain
velocity-related time dilation and length contraction, and the interchangeable
nature of mass and energy. In subsequent papers, conservation of energy is
applied to show how gravity affects time speed, fall velocities, and length
measurements, the effect known as the Shapiro Time Delay, the precession of
satellites and planets, gravitational lensing, the appearance of Lorentz
contraction and a simple resolution of the Ehrenfest paradox.
