41. C-ship: Relativistic Ray Traced Images Features visualization of relativistic deformation effects of a spaceship like object.Category Science Physics relativity Simulators...... Our Sturdy Craft. The Lattice Galaxy. The Effects of special relativity. The LorentzContraction. The Dilation of Time. The Doppler Shift. The Aberration of Light. http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/cship.html

C-ship: Relativistic ray traced images Welcome aboard C-ship , exploring flight near the speed of light! C-ship helps you understand Einstein's theory of Special Relativity intuitively through the medium of computer-synthesised images. To view the images in this document, you need a graphics-oriented Web browser. We'll be looking at lots of pictures on our journey. Sending large pictures across the Internet consumes precious network bandwidth and can take a long time. So, I'll show small "thumbnail" views of most pictures, with words "GIF" and "JPEG" beneath the image. When you click on the word, you'll see the full-size image. Most of the images are understandable from the thumbnail views. It's up to you which images you'd like to examine in more detail. If your browser supports in-line JPEG images, click on JPEG, otherwise use GIF. JPEG images look much better and take much less time to transmit to your computer, but not all Web browsers understand them. Our Sturdy Craft The Lattice Galaxy The Effects of Special Relativity The Lorentz Contraction The Dilation of Time The Doppler Shift The Aberration of Light Our Missions of Exploration Mission: Flying through the Lattice Mission: Trans-Lattice Shuttle Your Turn to Explore References and Further Reading by John Walker

42. Special Relativity A set of online lecture notes for a course in special relativity from the University of Winnepeg.Category Science Physics relativity Courses and Tutorials...... special relativity. In this Chapter we will show how Einstein's Theory ofspecial relativity arises basic postulates about the laws of Physics. http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_tech/node132.html

Next: The Postulates of Special Up: Physics 1501 - Modern Previous: Questions Special Relativity In this Chapter we will show how Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity arises basic postulates about the laws of Physics. We will then derive some of the more intriguing consequences of the theory, such as time dilaton, length contraction and the famous formula E mc The Postulates of Special Relativity Frames of Reference and Galilean Transformations Time Dilation Length Contraction ... modtech@theory.uwinnipeg.ca

43. Relativistic Optics At The ANU BACKLIGHT is a photorealistic relativistic visualisation system. Developed at the Australian National Category Science Physics relativity Simulators...... Click on the images below to download the two extended relativistic optics videos,Visualizing special relativity, and Seeing relativity, in RealPlayer format. http://www.anu.edu.au/Physics/Searle/

Seeing Relativity If the speed of light could be reduced from over a billion kilometers per hour to just a few meters per second, the world would look very different. The Australian National University relativistic visualization project has used supercomputers to simulate what we might see in a world where the effects of Einstein's theory of special relativity are everyday experiences. View selected stills in the gallery download the complete movies (17 minutes / 22 megabytes) and explanatory commentary or purchase complete VHS copies. A paper is available explaining the physics of relativistic optics. Doppler-Shifted Highway At 76% the speed of light straight lines appear distorted, clouds bunch at the horizon, and a red desert is Doppler-shifted into a rainbow of different colours. Antony.Searle@anu.edu.au Gallery Click on any of the images for a larger version.

44. Animations at the ANU. The Mathematica notebooks should be loaded to disk .special relativity. Light Clocks. These animations were produced http://www.anu.edu.au/Physics/qt/Welcome.html

Introduction This is an archive of Quicktime animations used for teaching physics at the ANU. The Mathematica notebooks should be "loaded to disk". Special relativity Light Clocks These animations were produced using Mathematica to demonstrate time dilation using light clocks. The notebook can be downloaded. The animations are explained here A stationary light clock: QT animation A moving light clock: QT animation Moving and stationary light clocks: QT animation Lengths perpendicular to the motion These were produced using Mathematica to demonstrate the invariance of lengths perpendicular to an objects motion. The notebook can be downloaded. The animations are explained here Box and C shape move: QT animation Box moves: QT animation C shape moves: QT animation Curved space = gravity analogy This was produced using Mathematica to demonstrate how a curved surface can simulate a force. The notebook can be downloaded. The animations are explained here Points moving on great circles of a sphere: QT animation Back to the physics home page Craig.Savage@anu.edu.au

45. Mechanics And Special Relativity Introduction to Lagrangian mechanics, Noether's theorem, special relativity, collisions and scattering, rotational motion, angular momentum, torque, the moment of inertia tensor, oscillators damped and driven, gravitation, planetary motion, and introduction to cosmology http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~phys16/

Fall 2002 Handouts Lectures Assignments eMailbag ... Early Evaluations Physics 16 Mechanics and Special Relativity Howard Georgi Calendar and Announcements Friday, April 11, 2003 There are no announcements for today. Newtonian mechanics and special relativity for students with good preparation in physics and mathematics at the level of the advanced placement curriculum. Topics include an introduction to Lagrangian mechanics, Noether's theorem, special relativity, collisions and scattering, rotational motion, angular momentum, torque, the moment of inertia tensor, oscillators damped and driven, gravitation, planetary motion, and an introduction to cosmology. GREAT JOB - ALL I am delighted to say that you all did well in the course. I know that a few of you were disappointed that your brains froze up on the inclass final. I wish I knew how prevent this. But none of you did badly, and remember that I know many of you well and I am happy to tell others about your strengths. If you would like to discuss spring term courses, I would be happy to talk to you. I am hoping to be in the department in the late afternoons. There will be construction going on near my office this term, so I probably won't spend time there until about 2:30pm. I will also be available in the Leverett dining hall at various time. Send an email if you can't find me. Course info for 2002 in the handouts folder.

46. ASTR 103: Relativity - Special Theory ASTR 103 Astronomy. relativity - special Theory. Latest Modification December8, 1997 Newtonian Gravity - Problems. Postulates of special relativity. http://www.physics.gmu.edu/classinfo/astr103/CourseNotes/rlt_splr.htm

ASTR 103 - Astronomy Relativity - Special Theory Latest Modification: December 8, 1997 Newtonian Gravity - Problems Newtonian cosmology failed to develop a grand (encompassing) theory of gravity Serious defect in that gravity acted instantaneously everywhere Example - When apple falls to ground every place in universe receives information simultaneously Newtonian gravity ignores fact that speed of light is finite and information does not travel with infinite speed, i.e., inconsistent with special relativity Newtonian gravity overturns law of causality and allows effects to precede causes because of infinite speed of light Newtonian Space-Time Euclidean geometry, reasonable assumptions about nature of space Parallel postulate: given straight line and point not on straight line, one and only one straight line equidistant from given straight line may be drawn through given point Experience suggests that these two lines remain equidistant (parallel) across all space even though we can not verify it Plane triangle: sum of angles = 180 o Pythagorean theorem: c = a + b Space is absolute and time is absolute; both are unchanging

47. J. RELATIVITY (SPECIAL AND GENERAL) Back to Table of Contents. Back to Index. J. relativity (special ANDGENERAL). List of Films Videotapes About Time R 1962 50 min http://www.phys.uvic.ca/dbr/resman/indexJ_xtern.html

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48. Spe-home1 This homepage is the summary of the unique method with regard tothe special relativity and electromagnetism. When you use this http://www4.justnet.ne.jp/~ichirota/spe-home1.HTM

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49. Particles, Special Relativity And Quantum Mechanics Explains some of the more interesting results and predictions of modern physics.Category Science Physics Education Tutorials......Particles, special relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Two twins, convenientlynamed A and B, both know the rules of special relativity. http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rmext04/92andwed/pf_quant.html

Particles, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics Special Relativistic Paradoxes and Puzzles Tachyons The Particle Zoo Does Antimatter Fall Up or Down? ... Main Physics Contents page Special Relativistic Paradoxes The Barn and the Pole The Twin Paradox The Superluminal Scissors Relativity and Quantum Mechanics Contents The Barn and the Pole Updated 4-AUG-1992 by SIC Original by Robert Firth Paradoxes Contents These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. Now someone takes the pole and tries to run (at nearly the speed of light) through the barn with the pole horizontal. Special Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is contracted in the direction of motion: this is called the Lorentz Contraction. So, if the pole is set in motion lengthwise, then it will contract in the reference frame of a stationary observer. You are that observer, sitting on the barn roof. You see the pole coming towards you, and it has contracted to a bit less than 40m. So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you close both doors. Of course, you open them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the contracted pole shut up in your barn. The runner emerges from the far door unscathed. But consider the problem from the point of view of the runner. She will regard the pole as stationary, and the barn as approaching at high speed. In this reference frame, the pole is still 80m long, and the barn is less than 20 meters long. Surely the runner is in trouble if the doors close while she is inside. The pole is sure to get caught.

50. What's So Special About Relativity? Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity Later to become known as the specialTheory of relativity, its first postulate was that the speed of light is the http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/SpecialRel.html

Forward Back Up Map ... Information What's So Special About Relativity? Einstein's first theory of relativity, which he published in 1905, broke away from the Newtonian reliance on space and time as immutable frames of reference. This theory was immediately recognized by the scientific community as having profound implications for physics and cosmology. Einstein's main goal was to address the apparent inconsistencies in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. No wonder Einstein named his paper The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies Einstein's 1905 paper on Special Relativity Later to become known as the Special Theory of Relativity , its first postulate was that the speed of light is the same for all observers, regardless of their motion relative to the source of the light. The second postulate was that all observers moving at constant speed should observe the same physical laws. Putting these two ideas together, Einstein showed that the only way this can happen is if time intervals and/or lengths change according to the speed of the system relative to the observer's frame of reference. This flies against our everyday experience but has since been demonstrated to hold in a number of very solid experiments. For example, scientists have shown that an atomic clock travelling at high speed in a jet plane ticks more slowly than its stationary counterpart. JPEG Einstein's discovery of the relativity of space and time led to an equally revolutionary insight. Matter and energy are interrelated, even equivalent. The equivalence of matter and energy is summed up in the famous equation:

51. HSAA Chapter 10 Table Of Contents A collection of equations important to both special relativity and general relativity. http://adsbit.harvard.edu/books/hsaa/chap10.html

Chapter 10 Relativity Links to WWW resources Special relativity......................................... Lorentz transformation..................................... 4-Vector transformation................................... Examples of 4-vectors..................................... 2nd rank tensor transformation............................ Electromagnetic field strength tensor..................... Covariant formulation of Maxwell's equations.............. Lorentz force............................................. Cosmology.................................................. Robertson-Walker line element............................. Einstein field equations.................................. Friedmann universes....................................... Bibliography............................................... Return to Table of Contents

52. Physics 252 Home Page A second year course on special relativity and quantum mechanics. All of the lecture notes can be Category Science Physics Quantum Mechanics Courses...... Index of Lectures. special relativity. Homework Assignments. Due Friday,January 29 French, special relativity, Chapter 2 5, 6, 7. http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/home.html

Physics 252: Modern Physics (as given in Spring 1999) Teacher: Michael Fowler (For premodern physics, check out my course on Galileo and Einstein For German Readers : All the lectures below on Special Relativity have been translated into German by Christoph Scholz, who teaches high school physics (pupils aged 10-19) in Hagen, Germany. They can be downloaded in pdf format at einstein-deutsch.pdf Scholtz’ school URL is http://www.ha.shuttle.de/ha/hildegardis/mint/physik.htm Index of Lectures Special Relativity 12 lectures Galilean Relativity and the Invariance of Newton's Laws The Speed of Light The Michelson-Morley Experiment Special Relativity ... Brief Review of the Kinetic Theory of Gases Photons 4 lectures Blackbody Radiation The Photoelectric Effect Rays and Particles Atoms 6 lectures Brief Historical Review Atomic Spectra Early Atomic Models: Vortices and Pudding Rutherford's Experiment and the Beginning of Nuclear Physics ... The Bohr Atom Particles and Waves 4 lectures From the Bohr Atom to De Broglie's Waves Wave Packets and the Uncertainty Principle Probabilities, Amplitudes and Probability Amplitudes More on the Uncertainty Principle Schrodinger's Equation 6 lectures Wave Equations for Photons and Electrons Electron in a Box Finite Square Well Simple harmonic oscillator.

53. WebMath Special Relativity Demonstration A computer aided demonstration of what a wire frame house , tree, and stick figure would like like at any speed and any direction. http://www.webmath.com/house.html

54. Frequently Asked Questions About Special Relativity Frequently Asked Questions About special relativity. These accelerators only workproperly because they are constructed obeying the laws of special relativity. http://www.phys.vt.edu/~jhs/faq/sr.html

Frequently Asked Questions About Special Relativity Compiled by Dr. John Simonetti of the Department of Physics at Virginia Tech Back to Frequently Asked Astronomy and Physics Questions Can you give me information on why travelling at light speed is so impossible? DS, 8th grade, Blacksburg Middle School, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. 1996 Is there a chance that we may be able to go the speed of light sometime in the future? DS, 8th grade, Blacksburg Middle School, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. 1996 Einstein said that if something could travel at light speed its mass would duplicate. How could it be? JLR, UAM, Mexico City, Mexico. 1997 Please explain how the Twin Paradox works. Can you give me information on why travelling at light speed is so impossible? Now, every space ship, or other plane, etc., has traveled at a speed very small compared to light, so you might be wondering how we know the Special Relativity Theory is correct (why should we believe it without evidence?). Although, we have never made any large object (like a space ship) travel at a considerable fraction of light speed, experimental particle physicists are constantly making electrons and the like travel at speeds like 99% of the speed of light in particle accelerators. These accelerators only work properly because they are constructed obeying the laws of Special Relativity. To make the electrons accelerate, when they are already at 90% of the speed of light, does indeed take quite a bit more energy than would a comparable speed change when they are only moving at 10% of the speed of light. Special Relativity theory appears correct, in detail, even under the extreme speed conditions of a particle accelerator.

55. Space And Time Course based on Stephen Hawking's best selling book, A Brief History of Time . The course deals with topics in modern physics such as Einstein's special Theory of relativity, Quantum Theory, Black Holes and the Creation of the Universe. http://www.hartwick.edu/physics/spacetime.html

Welcome to the homepage for Physics 127: Space and Time. This course is based on Stephen Hawking's best selling book, "A Brief History of Time". The course deals with exciting topics in modern physics such as Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, Quantum Theory, Black Holes and the Creation of the Universe. Paul Hewitt's text "Conceptual Physics" is also used to fill in details about basic physics concepts such as energy, momentum, wave motion, atomic and nuclear physics that are necessary in order to understand the ideas in Hawking's book. You can read the syllabus by clicking here. A term project is required for this course. The purpose of the project is to help you to relate the ideas encountered in the course to your own interests, hobbies or professional goals. Details about this project can be obtained by clicking on the highlighted text. Here are some links to other web pages that may help you to learn about some of the ideas discussed in this course: Stonehenge This page contains several photos of the Stonehenge monument taken by Dr. Hickey in the Fall of 1999. Views of the Universe . This page and the dozen or so pages that follow it contain lots of background about the geocentric and heliocentric models of the universe. There is also a wealth of information about Kepler, Galileo, Newton, etc.

56. Clyde Davenport's Home Page Summary and application as it relates to electromagnetic theory and special relativity. http://home.usit.net/~cmdaven/cmdaven1.htm

Clyde Davenport's Home Page If your browser does not log on automatically, Please click here for the frameless version of this Web site.

57. Concept Of Space And Time In Special Relativity Space and Time in special relativity The This java applet invites youto the world of space and time in special relativity. There http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/~hwang/relativity/relativity.html

58. Relativity: The Special And General Theory Written 1916 Source relativity The special and General Theory © 1920 PublisherMethuen Co Ltd First Published December, 1916 Translated Robert W http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/einstein/works/1910s/relative/

Albert Einstein Reference Archive Relativity The Special and General Theory Written: Source: Publisher: First Published: December, 1916 Translated: Robert W. Lawson (Authorised translation) Transcription/Markup: Brian Basgen Copyleft: Einstein Reference Archive (marxists.org) 1999, 2002. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Download HTML Download PDF Preface Part I: The Special Theory of Relativity Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions The System of Co-ordinates Space and Time in Classical Mechanics The Galileian System of Co-ordinates ... Minkowski's Four-dimensial Space Part II: The General Theory of Relativity Special and General Principle of Relativity The Gravitational Field The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate of Relativity In What Respects are the Foundations of Classical Mechanics and of the Special Theory of Relativity Unsatisfactory? ... The Solution of the Problem of Gravitation on the Basis of the General Principle of Relativity Part III: Considerations on the Universe as a Whole Cosmological Difficulties of Newton's Theory The Possibility of a "Finite" and yet "Unbounded" Universe The Structure of Space According to the General Theory of Relativity Appendices: Simple Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation (sup. ch. 11)

59. Seven Dimensional (and Up) Einsteinian Hyperspherical Universe Updated material from the archived Cosmology Review site written in cooperation with UNC. A conceptualization in plain English of an eternal, dual, periodic universe model according to special and General relativity. http://www.fm/7-sphere/

Seven Dimensional (and up) Einsteinian Hyperspherical Universe In Plain English (Auto translate via AltaVista by Samuel A. Cox, BS; MSEd. Where are those one or two orders of magnitude of mass necessary to give us the universe we observe? Why is the universe accelerating outward? Why is the early universe observed to be dominated by Black Holes? How is order created, conserved and preserved in the cosmos? Why can matter only exist on a microscopic singular foundation? These and many, many other observations and questions are answered by this quasi-static "Geometric Universe" model, in which the dimensional parameters of cosmology are logically adjusted to better fit the mathematical dualism of General Relativity. This site consists of descriptive material and informal, non technical discussion of the profound implications of Singularity, Duality and Periodicity in a General Relativity Cosmology Model based on ... hyperspherical space with seven large dimensions; two/ sphere, Schwarzschild geometry and a single process but periodic time dimension. The model features a discrete, massive quantum Planck Realm, dual 3-space "hemispheres" with submicroscopic, and macroscopic, (astronomical) singular/photonic antipodes, inverse mapping with cosmological time separation, a photon based frame of reference system- and "time reversal" without an inverse process! Palikir, Pohnpei; November 25, 1999; Site Constructed August 2, 2000

60. The Special Theory Of Relativity STR The special Theory of relativity. Let's briefly recapitulatethe situation in 1865 the Maxwell equations, which correctly http://musr.physics.ubc.ca/~jess/p200/str/str.html

Next: The Galilean Transformations STR - The Special Theory of Relativity Let's briefly recapitulate the situation in 1865: the Maxwell equations , which correctly described all the phenomena of electromagnetism known in the mid-19 th Century (and then some), predicted also that electromagnetic fields should satisfy the wave equation by virtue of a changing creating and vice versa , the electric and magnetic fields would be able to ``play off each other" and propagate through space in the form of a wave with all the properties of light (or its manifestations in shorter and longer wavelengths, which we also term ``light" when discussing electromagnetic waves in general). Fine, so far. But there are some unsettling implications of this ``final" explanation of light. First of all (and the focus of this handout) is the omission of any reference to a medium that does the ``wiggling" as the electromagnetic wave goes through it. Water waves propagate through water, sound waves through air, liquid or solid, plasma waves through plasmas, This was the first time anyone had ever postulated a wave that just propagated by itself through empty vacuum (or ``free space," as it is often called in this context). Moreover, the propagation velocity of light (or any electromagnetic wave) through the vacuum is given unambiguously by the

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