Main Table of Contents

  0: Introduction
  1: Reference frames
  2: Events and observers
  3: Light can travel through a vacuum
  4: Speed of light: absolute
  5: Simultaneity, or the lack thereof
  6: Spacetime diagrams optional
  7: Interactive problem: Conduct Einstein's simultaneity experiment
  8: Time dilation
  9: Interactive checkpoint: time dilation
10: Exploring and deriving time dilation
11: Interactive problem: Experiment with the light clock
12: Length contraction
13: Relative velocity at relativistic speeds
14: Doppler shift for light
15: Relativistic linear momentum
16: Mass and energy
17: “E equals mc squared”: a thought experiment
18: Total energy: relativistic vs. Newtonian kinetic energy
19: Interactive checkpoint: accelerated electron
20: Gotchas
21: Summary

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