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View SchemaProposal of an experimental strategy to introduce relativity in elementary physics courses
| Authors | Roberto Assumpcao |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0301010 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0301010 |
| Journal | iNEER Conference for Engineering Education and Research, Tainan, Taiwan, March 1-5, 2005 |
Abstract
This contribution shows that the main topics of Relativity can be discussed at an elementary level and in a considerable extent - including the formal results of "Time Dilation" and "Lorentz Contraction" - by a minor modification of the usual mathematical formalism employed to describe uniform and accelerated motion. The proposed strategy begins with a "free-fall" experiment, followed by a discussion of the results in order to include deviations of the experimental data with respect to the conventional kinematics model.
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