Conceptual Physics Alive: Special Relativity 1

Conceptual Physics Alive: Special Relativity 1 includes a digital video and questions set with answers. Observe Paul Hewitt teach in a classroom with real students, using engaging demonstrations and artwork. In this video, a discussion on the concept of time dilation leads up to a showing of the 12-minute animated film "Relativistic Time Dilation." Segment length: 49 minutes Special Relativity 1 Includes: Hewitt begins with a thought experiment of a baseball-pitching machine. Brief historical perspective of Einstein. Einstein's reasoning that constant speed of light indicates a relationship between space and time. First postulate of special relativity. Street-car example of Einstein viewing village clock from a moving reference frame. Chalkboard illustrations to show relativistic Doppler effect. Einstein's second postulate. The twin trip covered in detail. (A treatment of the "twin paradox.") The twin trip from switched frames of reference. Showing of the 12-minute animated film, "Relativistic Time Dilation," by Steve Smith, which won First Prize at the American Educational Film Festival in 1977. Please note: The digital content will be sent to the email provided during checkout, once your order has been processed. Order will be processed no later than the next business day. Digital format: The email you will receive will contain a hyperlink to download a .ZIP file containing a digital video (.MP4) and questions set with answers (.PDF). Notice: The Conceptual Physics Alive Digital content is protected by copyright laws. Replicating and distributing this digital content without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright. This digital content can be used in physical or remote classroom settings (e.g., Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.), or Homeschool.