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Introduction To Special Relativity
Introduction To Special Relativity
● Synchronization: With a flash of light that spreads out as a spherical wave in all
directions.
Relativity of Simultaneity
● Two spatially separated events simultaneous in one reference
frame are not, in general, simultaneous in another inertial
frame moving relative to the first.
Corollary:
We ASSUME:
WHY?
Lorentz Transformation
𝛾(x,t,v) ? NO!
● Not x : Homogeneity of space.
● Not t: Homogeneity of time.
● Not v: Isotropy of space.
● Time dilation.
● Length contraction.
● Twin paradox.
● Relativistic dynamic.
● E = mc².
● General relativity.