Spacetime Diagrams | Special Relativity Ch. 2
Go to http://brilliant.org/MinutePhysicsSpecialRelativity to learn more about spacetime diagrams and for 20% off a premium subscription to Brilliant. This video is chapter 2 in my series on...
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Physics is all about the motion of things – how planets and stars move, how electrons and protons move, how the movement of molecules results in emergent properties like temperature, and so on. The role of relativity, in physics, is to study how that motion looks from different perspectives. Here I'm using “relativity” in a general sense, to mean from any different possible perspective, moving, accelerating, or otherwise; special relativity in particular is concerned with how motion looks just from a limited, or “special,” set of perspectives. But either way, relativity (special or not) is about how the motions of things look from different perspectives. Like, if you were looking at the earth and the moon, depending on where you were and how ...
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Physics is all about the motion of things – how planets and stars move, how electrons and protons move, how the movement of molecules results in emergent properties like temperature, and so on. The role of relativity, in physics, is to study how that motion looks from different perspectives. Here I'm using “relativity” in a general sense, to mean from any different possible perspective, moving, accelerating, or otherwise; special relativity in particular is concerned with how motion looks just from a limited, or “special,” set of perspectives. But either way, relativity (special or not) is about how the motions of things look from different perspectives. Like, if you were looking at the earth and the moon, depending on where you were and how ...
