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LECTURE 19
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lecture title

    Gedanken Experiments on Clocks and Time

text pages

    Ch 9, pp 111-114.

lecture goals

  • To complete our qualitative analysis of the space and time effects of Einstein's Special Relativity by looking at three time effects, one of them in two ways.

outline of lecture

    1. Review

    2. Gedanken Experiment 3: Clocks Run Slowly

    3. Gedanken Experiment 4: Clocks are Set Funny

    4. Gedanken Experiment 5: Tick-Tock Light Clock Runs Slowly

    5. Gedanken Experiment 6: Garage Doors: Time-Ordering is Relative

quote

The Lord may be subtle, but He is not malicious.

-- Albert Einstein

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