Space and Time in Special RelativityA classic of elementary relativistic pedagogy! This straight-forward book introduces readers to the conceptually tricky subject of relativity in understandable terms. The writing is crisp and clearly written by someone who is aware of the conceptual difficulties that nonscientists have in coming to grips with relativity. |
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The Principle of Relativity | 1 |
of Proving It | 43 |
of Proving It | 59 |
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100-centimeter 2.9979 hundred thousand A-time A's clock A's stick angle barn Chap clock moving clocks and meter clocks run slowly collision conclude conservation consider coordinate system correct distance Earth clocks energy and momentum equations experiment fact factor flash happen Hence horizontal hundred thousand kilometers inertial frame inertial observer kilometers per second laboratory left end light-seconds lines of constant Lorentz transformation Lorentz transformation equations mark of stick mass measured meter stick moving meters per second Minkowski diagram mirror moving meter sticks moving observer moving past moving uniformly moving with speed moving with velocity non-relativistic observer moving photon picture point of view principle of relativity proper frame reads zero rela relativity of simultaneity rest right end Rule ship Sirius space-time special relativity speed of light stationary with respect synchronized t-axis t₁ theory things trajectories u²/c² UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA v²/c² velocity of light vertical world line x-axis