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LECTURE 20
questions before lecture
think about these
- Where in our Gedanken Experiments has there been a triangle like the one we had for the swimmers racing?
- What happens to the gamma factor when v/c gets bigger?
- How big can v/c get?
- How small and how large can gamma get?
- What is meant by "time is the fourth dimension?"
- What is a "light second?"
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Professor Bernice Durand, bdurand@theory3.physics.wisc.edu.
Revised October 13, 1997.
Content © 1997, Bernice Durand
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