Topic
Content
Classroom Activities
Check for Understanding
Galilean Relativity Introduction
Welcome
Moving fast
Coordinate systems: different origins
Coordinate systems: rotations
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
The first postulate of relativity
The second postulate of relativity
Justifying the postulates
Kahoot Quiz: Frame transformations & the postulates
Time Dilation
The light clock
Light clock on a train 1
Light clock on a train 2
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
Newtonian momentum in a moving reference frame
Mass-energy relationship
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