Relativity
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Assessments: 26.1 - Special Relativity | 26.2 - Energy and General Relativity
Special Relativity - Chapter 26
26A. Understand what ether is, and why the Michelson Morley experiment failed to find it. Understand Einstein's gedanken experiment, and the postulates of special relativity.
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The Postulates of Special Relativity:
26B. Understand how the postulates lead to time dilation
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Rationale for Time Dilation:
Deriving the Time Dilation Equation:
26C. Solve problems with Time Dilation, Length Contraction, and Mass Dilation
26H. Solve problems with relativistic Kinetic Energy.
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Relativistic Kinetic Energy:
26I. Solve relativistic addition of velocity problems.
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Relativistic Addition of Velocities:
26J. Use the energy-momentum formula.
Yeah - I don't have any video of this - read the book section 26-9.
General Relativity - Chapter 33
33A. Understand the Principle of Equivalence
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Principle of Equivalence:
33B. Apply the curvature of space to observations
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The Curvature of Space:
33C. Solve problems with black holes and Schwarzschild radius.
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Black Holes:
33D. Understand gravitational time dilation using the approximate frequency shift equation.
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Gravitational Frequency and Wavelength Shift:
33E. Solve problems with gravitational time dilation using the Schwarzschild radius.
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Gravitational Time Dilation: