Proposal of an experimental strategy to introduce relativity in elementary physics courses
Physics Education
2007-05-23 v2 Classical Physics
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0301010,
title = {Proposal of an experimental strategy to introduce relativity in elementary physics courses},
author = {Roberto Assumpcao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0301010},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages,4 figures,replaced to conform with published version, published title:"Basic Sciences and Engineering: An Experimental Strategy to Teach Relativity and Quantum Mechanics in Introductory Physics Courses"