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7F10.1 Special Relativity - Video

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Three 3-5 minute segments from the Mechanical Universe video series demonstrate: the relativity of simultaneity, time dilation, and space-time Minkowski diagrams. Compelling and easy to understand animations.

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Daily Motion Video or Learner Video go to episode 42: The lorentz transformation. Make sure you allow popups, and click the VoD icon to the right the video will appear in a new window, and the relevant portion is ~8 minutes in.

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