Space and Time in Special Relativity |
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The Principle of the Constancy of | 2 |
How to Approach the Problem | 19 |
Length of a Moving Stick I | 27 |
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100-centimeter 2.9979 hundred thousand A-time A's clock A's stick angle B₁ barn Chap clock moving clocks and meter clocks run slowly collision conclude conservation consider coordinate system correct distance Earth clocks energy and momentum equations experiment fact factor flash happen Hence horizontal hundred thousand kilometers inertial frame inertial observer kilometers per second laboratory left end light-seconds lines of constant Lorentz transformation Lorentz transformation equations lv/c² mark of stick mass mc² measured meter stick moving meters per second Minkowski diagram mirror moving meter sticks moving observer moving past moving uniformly moving with speed moving with velocity non-relativistic observer moving photon picture point of view principle of relativity proper frame reads zero rela relativity of simultaneity rest right end Rule ship Sirius space-time special relativity speed of light stationary with respect synchronized t-axis t₁ theory things trajectories u²/c² v/c² v²/c² velocity of light vertical world line x-axis