Visualizing proper-time in Special Relativity
Physics Education
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We present a new visualization of the proper-time elapsed along an observer's worldline. By supplementing worldlines with light clocks, the measurement of space-time intervals is reduced to the "counting of ticks." The resulting space-time diagrams are pedagogically attractive because they emphasize the relativistic view that "time is what is measured by an observer's clock."
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0505134,
title = {Visualizing proper-time in Special Relativity},
author = {Roberto B. Salgado},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0505134},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, 14 figures, to appear