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View SchemaThree levels of understanding physical relativity: Galileo's relativity, Up-to-date Galileo's relativity and Einstein's relativity: A historical survey
| Authors | Bernhard Rothenstein, Corina Nafornita |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0409121 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0409121 |
Abstract
We present a way of teaching Einstein's special relativity. It starts with Galileo's relativity, the learners know from previous lectures. The lecture underlines that we can have three transformation equations for the space-time coordinates of the same event, which lead to absolute clock readings, time intervals and lengths (Galileo's relativity), to absolute clock readings but to relative time intervals and lengths (up-to-date Galileo transformations) and to relative clock readings time intervals and lengths.
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