Affiliation:
1. San Jose City College, San Jose, CA
Abstract
Teaching special relativity to lower-division students is challenging because results such as time dilation, length contraction, and frame dependence of simultaneity are counterintuitive. The literature is extensive, so only a brief list is given here, with articles divided roughly between discussions of general principles and calculations applied to selected physical systems.
Publisher
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,Education