Relativity
Relativity
minute physics:
special relativity: intro, e=mc2, twins intro, and muons
special relativity course: ch1 ch2 ch3 ch4 ch5 ch6 ch7 ch8
Twin Paradox funny animation from the 70s - "peace" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewfRxjesNTs
Physics Girl explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERgwVm9qWKA
"The Mechanical Universe" series dated 1985 (about 30 minutes each)
41. The Michelson-Morley experiment:
42. The Lorentz Transformation:
44. Mass, Momentum and Energy:
(Some say that the teaching of relativistic mass leads to misconceptions, scroll down to Popular science and textbooks but in Provincial and IB curriculae, relative motion increases mass)
gps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M3dlco6-SU&feature=youtu.be
video game based on relativistic motion: (I can't get it to work on most of the school computers, needs a graphics card): http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/
It shows relativistic doppler effect until you collect 100 orbs, then it shows some length contraction (I was hoping for more visible effects, like length contraction for all moving objects. Oh well, back to Hearthstone).
1946 short story: Mr. Thopmkin's Journey:
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~durkin/phys1201/MrTompkinshort.pdf
Simultanaety : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wteiuxyqtoM
Train paradox (how can a length contracted train fit in a tunnel) explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGsbBw1I0Rg
movie, "E=mc2 -Einstein and the World's Most Famous Equation" (1 hour and fourty minutes reenactments with interviews and narration)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJAP4-Gk6Nk
Stephen Hawking on the Universe 2008(10 minute Ted Talk):http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe.html
Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physicist and wrote the unbelievably successful "A Brief History of Time"(available in the Churchill Library)http://www.fisica.net/relatividade/stephen_hawking_a_brief_history_of_time.pdf
Funny stuff with Stephen Hawking
Singing Monty Python's "the galaxy shong": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFNCjbQk9IU
getting a new voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqXOlfwlVag
Playing chess with antman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi0BzqV_b44
Movies about his life:
1991 movie, "A Brief History of Time" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAfxKExKjVQ
2014 movie trailer for "The Theory of Everything" :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Salz7uGp72c I think it is on Netflix occasionally.
