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Chapter 39: Special Relativity
In this unit you will learn the postulates of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. You will also learn about some of the consequences of relativity - some of these consequences seem, at first, to be strange if not incredible, but all of them make perfect sense because they follow logically from Einstein's postulates. You will also learn how to transform observations between frames of reference. We will also investigate some of the energy and mass effects of Special Relativity
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Due Date Assignment Due
Thursday
Friday
5/14
5/15
Problems 1 - 4.
Problems 5 - 8.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
5/18
5/19
5/20
5/21
5/22
Problems 9 - 11.
Problems 12 - 14.
Problems 15 - 17.
Problems 18 - 21.
Problems 22 - 25.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
5/26
5/27
5/28
5/29
Problems 26 - 28.
Problems 29 - 31.
Problems 32 - 34.
Problems 35 - 37.
Monday 6/1 Problems 41 - 43, 46.
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