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Length Contraction and Time Dilation - Special Relativity Ch. 5

This video is chapter 5 in my series on special relativity, and it covers how things that are moving (that is, moving relative to an inertial reference frame) at different speeds appear to be shorter in length... and longer in length. And shorter in time, and longer in time. It all makes sense, I promise, and is clear when you use the Lorentz transformation of coordinates of the events in question, enacted with a mechanical minkowski diagram, aka mechanical Lorentz transformation, aka spacetime globe.

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  • Originally Aired May 29, 2018
  • Runtime 3 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Created May 29, 2018 by
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