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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)
