Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land. Little minutes, small though they may be, make the mighty ages of eternity.

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Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
Little minutes, small though they may be, make
the mighty ages of eternity.
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SPECIAL RELATIVITY
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REFERENCE FRAMES

• Inertial reference frame
• Galilean relativity
• Accelerated reference frames

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THE SPEED OF LIGHT

• Maxwells equations
• magnetic and electric field symmetry
• accelerating/oscillating charges
• Michelson-Morley experiment

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POSTULATES OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY

• The postulate of relativity (reference frames)
• The speed of light
• The problem of simultaneity

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RELATIVE MEASUREMENTS

• Proper time
• single clock at rest

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RELATIVE MEASUREMENTS

• Time dilation
• two synchronized clocks

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RELATIVE MEASUREMENTS

• Time dilation
• the speed parameter
• the Lorentz factor
• muon experimental confirmation
• the twin paradox

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RELATIVE MEASUREMENTS

• Proper length
• no time constraints
• Length contraction
• Simultaneous position measurements
• The Lorentz transformations
• displacement
• time period

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Relative Measurements

• Velocity
• Mass
• classical momentum
• relativistic momentum and mass
• Relativistic kinetic energy

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Relative Measurements

• Total energy, momentum, and kinetic energy
  relationship
• Space-time diagrams
• vertical lines
• horizontal lines