An Illustrated Guide to Relativity
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Read Online or Download Table of Contents, Index Lecture Notes Special Relativity Practice Problems The Hare and the Tortoise I http://www1.phys.vt.edu/~takeuchi/relativity/practice/problem03.html The Hare and the Tortoise II http://www1.phys.vt.edu/~takeuchi/relativity/practice/problem04.html The Hare and the Tortoise III http://www1.phys.vt.edu/~takeuchi/relativity/practice/problem05.html Where Did the Universe Come From? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zx9T3y_5kc Minute Physics -- Twin Paradox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iJZ_QGMLD0 Time Dilation and Length Contraction for Cosmic Muons Example I (basic concept) At 0.95c, 𝛾 = 1/√(1-(v^2/c^2)) = 3.20 Time Dilation: 2.2µs x 3.20 = 7.04µs Length Contraction: 10,000ft / 3.2 = 3,125ft Example II (more realistic, but harder to visualize) At 0.9997c, 𝛾 = 1/√(1-(v^2/c^2)) = 40.63 Time Dilation: 2.2µs x 40.83 = 89.8µs Length Contraction: 90,000ft / 40.83 = 2,233ft Interactive Minkowski Diagram https://sciencesims.com/sims/minkowski/ Lorentz Factor Calculator 𝛾 = 1/√(1-(v^2/c^2)) https://www.azcalculator.com/calc/lorentz-factor-calculator.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_factor The Geometry of Causality (advanced) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFrISfN7jo Five Papers That Shook the World https://physicsworld.com/a/five-papers-that-shook-the-world/ ON THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES By A. Einstein http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/specrel.pdf Beautiful, Simple and Profound (90 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_yk45m4E3M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASzECGtSpqQ Spacetime: All the universe's a stage https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/spacetime-all-the-universes-a-stage Feynman Diagrams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe7atm1x6Mg sam.wormley@icloud.com