Conceptual Physics Alive: Special Relativity 1

Conceptual Physics Alive: Special Relativity 1 includes a digital video and questions set with answers. Observe Paul Hewitt teach in a classroom with real students, using engaging demonstrations and artwork. In this video, a discussion on the concept of time dilation leads up to a showing of the 12-minute animated film "Relativistic Time Dilation." Segment length: 49 minutes Special Relativity 1 Includes: Hewitt begins with a thought experiment of a baseball-pitching machine. Brief historical perspective of Einstein. Einstein's reasoning that constant speed of light indicates a relationship between space and time. First postulate of special relativity. Street-car example of Einstein viewing village clock from a moving reference frame. Chalkboard illustrations to show relativistic Doppler effect. Einstein's second postulate. The twin trip covered in detail. (A treatment of the "twin paradox.") The twin trip from switched frames of reference. Showing of the 12-minute animated film, "Re