Table of Contents
Special Relativity Activities
Spacetime diagrams and hyperbolic trigonometry
Paradoxes in special relativity
Relativistic energy and momentum
Relativistic electromagnetism
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Special Relativity Activities
Spacetime diagrams and hyperbolic trigonometry
Galilean Spacetime Diagrams
(SWBQ: 20 minutes)
Trigonometry
(SWBQ: 5 minutes)
Right Triangles
(SWBQ: 10 minutes)
Length Contraction
(SWBQ: 30 minutes)
Cosmic Rays
(
SGA
: 45 minutes)
Doppler effect
(
SGA
: 10 minutes)
Paradoxes in special relativity
Paradoxes I
(
SGA
: 45-80 minutes)
Paradoxes II
(
SGA
: 20 minutes)
Relativistic energy and momentum
Energy, Mass, Momentum
(SWBQ: 10 minutes)
Mass is not Conserved
(
SGA
: 10 minutes)
Energy-Momentum in Different Frames
(
SGA
or SWBQ: 30 minutes)
Relativistic electromagnetism
Lorentz Transformations for Electromagnetism
(
SGA
: 45 minutes)