Lecture 16 - Thursday, 7 March 2013

Chapter 10 - Section 10.8

• Space-time diagrams and worldlines
• E = mc²

Powerpoint Slides

Note: These slides do not include all material presented in class - additional material was presented on the blackboard and in demonstrations.
Note: I used the blackboard to explain the space-time diagrams in some detail. If you missed the lecture, then you should make sure you get the notes from a friend.

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Supplementary Material

Today's demonstrations: none.

Today's animations: none.

• The Light Cone - an illuminating introduction to relativity (Syracuse University): http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/index.html

• Spacetime Wrinkles (University of Illinois): http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/NumRelHome.html

• Another animation of time dilation with a lightclock: http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/flashlets/lightclock.swf

• Another animation of length contraction: http://www.cs.sbcc.edu/~physics/flash/relativity/LengthContraction.html

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