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Galilean Relativity Introduction
Welcome
Worksheet & Practice: Galilean Relativity
Moving fast
Discussion: Galilean Relativity
Coordinate systems: different origins
Worksheet & Practice 2: Galilean Relativity
Coordinate systems: rotations
Problem: Galilean Relativity
Kahoot Quiz: Galilean Relativity
Galilean Relativity on a train
Jumping on a train
Jumping on a train explanation
Throwing on a train
Throwing on a train continued
Throwing on a train even more continued
Still throwing on a train
Throwing on a train summary
Frame Transformation
Frame transformations
Frame transformation formulae
Summary of Galilean relativity
The Postulates of Special Relativity
Fundamental effects introduction
Discussion: Postulates of Special Relativity
The first postulate of relativity
Worksheet: Postulates of Special Relativity
The second postulate of relativity
Justifying the postulates
Kahoot Quiz: Frame transformations & the postulates
Time Dilation
The light clock
Discussion: Time Dilation
Light clock on a train 1
Practice: Time Dilation
Light clock on a train 2
Problem: Cloud Chambers
Gamma
Time dilation
Clocks in agreement
Relativity of Simultaneity
Water buckets
Water buckets: Alice’s perspective
Water buckets: Bob’s perspective
Ordering of events
Kahoot Quiz: Time dilation &relativity of simultaneity
Length Contraction
Horizontal light clock
Lengths in different frames
Relating lengths in different frames
Length contraction
Kahoot Quiz: Length contraction
Concluding remarks
Where does gamma go?
What would you see?
Paradoxes: Muons
Introductions to paradoxes
Muons from the Earth’s frame
Muons from the Earth’s frame resolution
Muons from the muons’ frame
Muons from the muons’ perspective resolution
Paradoxes: Bell’s Spaceships
Bell’s spaceships
Bell’s spaceships resolution
Paradoxes: The relativistic limo
The limo and the garage
The limo and the garage resolution
Car crushing
Shockwaves
Signal propagation 1
Signal propagation 2
Car crushing resolution
Kahoot Quiz: Paradoxes
Relativistic Momentum
Newtonian momentum in a static reference frame
Worksheet & Practice: Relativistic Momentum
Newtonian momentum in a moving reference frame
Mass-energy relationship
Worksheet & Practice: Mass-Energy Equivalence
What does the mass-energy relationship mean?
Simpler relativistic energy
Kahoot Quiz: Relativistic Momentum
Extension: Fundamental effects from the Lorentz Transformations
Invariance in special relativity
Spacetime coordinates – directions perpendicular to motion
Spacetime coordinates – example problem
Spacetime coordinates answer
Assumptions about the Lorentz transformation
General linear transformations
Interval transformations 1
Interval transformations 2
Interval transformations 3
Solving for the time coefficients
Finding the position coefficients
Solving for the position coefficients
Planck units
Extension: Fundamental effects from the Lorentz Transformations
Low velocity limits 1
Low velocity limits 2
Low velocity limits: an old friend
Inverting the Lorentz transformations
Relativity of simultaneity revisited 1
Relativity of simultaneity revisited 2
Time dilation revisited 1
Time dilation revisited 2
Time dilation of a soccer ball
Length contraction revisited 1
Length contraction revisited 2
It’s backwards!
‘Simultaneous’ measurements
Recovering length contraction
Extension: The Invariant Interval
Velocity combination
Transverse velocity addition
Spacetime distance
The Relativistic Rollercoaster
