To celebrate Albert Einstein’s birthday on March 14 (also known as π Day) in 2015 (International Year of Light!), I did a series of posts on Special Relativity.
(It’s a doubly special year for this commemoration. Not only in being the Year of Light but being an extra-special π Day year: 3/14/15.)
Here’s an index of those posts:
Introduction
Galilean Relativity
- SR #0: What’s So Special?
- SR #1: Motion in General
- SR #2: Relative Motion
- SR #3: Relative Velocity
- SR #4: Two Rules
Time-Space Diagrams
- SR #5: Diagrams!
- SR #6: More Diagrams
- SR #7: Dueling Diagrams
- SR #8: Space-Time Events
- SR #9: Light Diagrams
Events & Simultaneity
- SR #10: Simultaneous Events
- SR #11: Simultaneous Not!
- SR #12: Relative Simultaneity
- SR #13: Coordinate Systems
Trains & Tunnels
- SR #14: Trained Lightning
- SR #15: Peace Treaty Train
- SR #16: A Train Too Long
- SR #17: Relative Length
- SR #18: Light Cones
Time & Twins
- SR #19: “It’s Twins!”
- SR #20: One-Way Symmetry
- SR #21: Paradox Resolved!
- SR #22: Relative Time
- SR #23: Light Clocks
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