PHYSICS 70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Lightning, Relative Velocity, Special Relativity
2 Dec 2016
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Special relativity overview: how things look when moving very fast relative to you, frames of reference simultaneity and transformations. All laws of physics should be same in all inertial frames of reference (constant v) F=ma, f=qxb should all be same Speed of light is same in all inertial frames of reference. Order of events, time intervals, distance intervals and mass al vary, depending on velocity of observer. A and c choices: train coasting at constant speed, and bedroom. All the laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames of reference. It wasn"t confined to any particular interaction - fundamental property of nature, didn"t matter what velocity you were moving. This is the definition of the principle of relativity. A light bulb puts out pulse of light that spreads out in all directions according to einstein the speed at which the light moves to the right is.
