Skill — Switching between inertial frames by composing velocities.
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Linked atoms
37 linked atoms.
05 Quantità di moto e urti
06 Centro di massa
- Internal kinetic energy of two balls
- Worked exercise — The cat on the trolley
- The centre-of-mass frame
- The little arrow diagram
- König’s theorem for kinetic energy
20 Relatività ristretta
- Astronaut heading to Proxima Centauri
- Worked exercise — Caterina heading to Alpha Centauri
- Relativistic composition of velocities
- Length contraction
- Relativistic western duel
- Relativistic Doppler effect
- Worked exercise — Condor versus rocket
- Galileo versus Einstein
- The cosmic-ray muon
- The twin paradox
- The pion in flight
- The physical meaning of the three classes
- The triangle trick
- The ether and the Michelson-Morley experiment
- The relativistic time bomb
- Time dilation
- The inverse triangle inequality
- The simultaneity formula
- The rabbit race
- Relative simultaneity
- The Lorentz transformations
- The three hypotheses
- Problem — Composition of velocities (electron)
- Problem — Western duel: explicit calculation
- Problem — Tunnel at 0,8c
- Problem — The barn and the pole
- Problem — The minimum-time reference frame
- Problem — Simultaneity (true or false)
- Simultaneity of the lamps on the train
- SR of simultaneity and co-spatiality
- Spacelike or timelike