Lorentz Transformations | Special Relativity Ch. 3
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The goal of relativity is to explain and understand how motion looks from different perspectives, and in particular, from different moving perspectives. It's easy enough to describe motion itself – if something is moving relative to me, that means it has different positions at different times, which I can plot on a spacetime diagram. This straight line corresponds to motion at a constant velocity of say, v units to the right every second. And the question we're interested in is what do things look like from the moving perspective? Of course, the answer to this question is a physical one, and is determined by experimental evidence gathered by actually moving. And that evidence will come into play, but first we need to understand what it means, in t...
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The goal of relativity is to explain and understand how motion looks from different perspectives, and in particular, from different moving perspectives. It's easy enough to describe motion itself – if something is moving relative to me, that means it has different positions at different times, which I can plot on a spacetime diagram. This straight line corresponds to motion at a constant velocity of say, v units to the right every second. And the question we're interested in is what do things look like from the moving perspective? Of course, the answer to this question is a physical one, and is determined by experimental evidence gathered by actually moving. And that evidence will come into play, but first we need to understand what it means, in t...
