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This roughly covers IB DP Physics HL relativity.
This can be seen as additional material that includes the equations used, such as time dilation and the Lorentz transforms. You technically don’t need to know how to derive those things for the DP Physics HL course, but they are quite good to know. There are ample exercises, each with quite extensive keys at the end.
- The Special Theory of Relativity – an introduction
- Time dilation
- Time dilation – an Interactive page
- Length Contraction
- Lorentz transformation of space
- Lorentz transformation of time
- Adding velocities
- Space-Time diagrams – a first look
- Space-time intervals
- Space-time diagrams / Minkowski diagrams
- The Asteroid again, more about Space-time diagrams
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