PHYSICS TEACHER COURSES – SPECIAL RELATIVITY

Teacher resources are intended to be used in the classroom as support for the meriSTEM course Physics – Special Relativity. Videos from the course can be viewed in the YouTube playlist below.

PHYSICS – Special Relativity

Topic Content Classroom Activities Check for Understanding
Galilean Relativity Introduction
Galilean Relativity on a train
Frame Transformation
The Postulates of Special Relativity
Time Dilation
Relativity of Simultaneity
Length Contraction
Concluding remarks
Paradoxes: Muons
Paradoxes: Bell’s Spaceships
Paradoxes: The relativistic limo
Relativistic Momentum
Extension: Fundamental effects from the Lorentz Transformations
Extension: Fundamental effects from the Lorentz Transformations
Extension: The Invariant Interval