Event Title
Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F3: Cosmology, Theory: Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper
Location
Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Event Website
http://blogs.umass.edu/nes2011/
Start Date
19-11-2011 8:24 AM
End Date
19-11-2011 8:36 AM
Description
We present visual calculations in special relativity using spacetime diagrams drawn on graph paper that has been rotated by 45 degrees. The rotated lines represent lightlike directions in Minkowski spacetime, and the boxes in the grid (called light-clock diamonds) represent ticks of an inertial observer's lightclock. We show that many quantitative results can be read off a spacetime diagram by counting boxes, using a minimal amount of algebra.
Session F: Contributed Oral Papers – F3: Cosmology, Theory: Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper
Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
We present visual calculations in special relativity using spacetime diagrams drawn on graph paper that has been rotated by 45 degrees. The rotated lines represent lightlike directions in Minkowski spacetime, and the boxes in the grid (called light-clock diamonds) represent ticks of an inertial observer's lightclock. We show that many quantitative results can be read off a spacetime diagram by counting boxes, using a minimal amount of algebra.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/climate_nuclearpower/2011/nov19/40