Concept — Slowing down of clocks in motion relative to an observer.
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Linked atoms
36 linked atoms.
20 Relatività ristretta
- Astronaut travelling to Proxima Centauri
- Caterina travelling to Alpha Centauri
- Length contraction
- From the gamma factor to the speed (proton)
- Einstein’s postulates
- The low-speed limit
- The muon from cosmic rays
- The twin paradox
- The pion in flight
- Mr Rossi goes to the theatre
- The traveller at the cinema
- The Minkowski invariant
- The light clock
- The relativistic time bomb
- Time dilation
- The reverse triangle inequality
- The rabbit race
- Reading the gamma(v) graph
- Problem — Minkowski diagram of a rocket
- Problem — Lorentz factor at 0.6c
- Problem — Lorentz factor of the muon
- Problem — GPS, quantitatively
- Problem — The reference frame of minimum time
- Problem — Spacecraft and the beeps
- Problem — Which twin diagram
- Problem — Ranking the Lorentz factors (four spaceships)
- Problem — Gravitational redshift on Everest
- Problem — Estimating the relativistic GPS correction
- Four events and the reverse inequality
- Ranking the Lorentz factors (0.1c–0.99c)
- Ranking the Lorentz factors (three particles)
- Kinematic delay of GPS clocks
- Challenge: the twin paradox
- A relativistic timer
- Speed for gamma equal to 2