Special Relativity

Everyday life is a low energy affair, dominated by snail-speed interactions. A jetplane , although seemingly rapid in its motion across the skies is but a sloth compared to the slowest cosmic rays. Elementaryparticles live in a high - energy world interacting at unimaginable speeds. These entities are responsiblefor the most fundamental processes of nature and to understand them we need to examine the very concept of space and time from a new and counter-intuitive viewpoint.
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Relativity Topics    | Useful Equations
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PROBLEMS
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In this tour of Special Relativity you will


Take the lid off Einstein's Box.
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Re-examine your conception of physical reality.
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Discover how Time can be slowed down and Space can be contracted.
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Use Relativistic Mechanics to understand why the Speed of Light cannot be reached.
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Apply the Relativistic Doppler Shift to measure the expansion of the Universe.
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Find out why the Sum of the Parts  is greater than the Whole.
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Use the MostFamous Equation of the 20th century.
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Be puzzled and perplexed but
Never Bored.

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