Relativity of Space and time

Units

Animations



1. How does light spread? Michelson-Morley Experiment

 



2. How fast is light? Measuring the speed of light

 



3. Is it possible to make light faster?

 



4. Is there simultaneity?

 



5. The Light Clock

 



6. Is time running equally fast for everyone? Time dilation and length contraction

 

 



7. Muon decay

 



8. The twin paradox

 



9. Bertozzi experiment

 



10. Rest mass and dynamic or relativistic mass

 



11. Special Theory of Relativity

 



12. General Theory of Relativity

 



13. Impact on our GPS system