Lecture 14 - Thursday, 28 February 2013

Chapter 10 - Sections 10.4 - 10.5

• More on the speed of light
• The relativity of time - time dilation
• Time travel

Powerpoint Slides

Note: These slides do not include all material presented in class - additional material was presented on the blackboard and in demonstrations.

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Supplementary Material

Today's demonstrations: (i) finding the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave oven.

Today's animations:

• Moving through the city of Tubingen at nearly the speed of light (read the explanations too): http://www.spacetimetravel.org/tuebingen/tuebingen.html

• Additional visualizations on relativity from the Space Time Travel website - very cool! http://www.spacetimetravel.org/

• Finding the speed of light with marshmallows - try this at home! http://www.physics.umd.edu/ripe/icpe/newsletters/n34/marshmal.htm

• Derivation of time dilation - try this yourself at home: http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/SpecRel/Flash/TimeDilation.html

Additional link that may be of interest:

• Through Einstein's Eyes interactive multimedia site introducing Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity:
  http://www.anu.edu.au/Physics/Savage/TEE/site/tee/introduction.html

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