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Wes Tausend
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My local PBS station broadcasts a physics series on a sub-channel. They call it The Mechanical Universe locally.
PBS recently broadcast The Lorentz Transformation . It appears that one may view these on line, as the Lorentz Transformation began to load after I allowed it to pop-up. There are 52 half hour presentations altogether and they appear to be quite suitable for either high school or college classrooms.
The link I used is http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html .
I particularily liked the mention that a major difference between Lorentz's view and Einsteins is that Lorentz considered "contraction" an apparent phenomenon and Einstein took it as a real physical demand and postulated as such to go on to describe the laws of Special Relativity(SR). Most on here know that both Poincaré and Lorentz thought along similar lines to Einstein and SR, but he published a workable synopsis first.
Wes
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PBS recently broadcast The Lorentz Transformation . It appears that one may view these on line, as the Lorentz Transformation began to load after I allowed it to pop-up. There are 52 half hour presentations altogether and they appear to be quite suitable for either high school or college classrooms.
The link I used is http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html .
I particularily liked the mention that a major difference between Lorentz's view and Einsteins is that Lorentz considered "contraction" an apparent phenomenon and Einstein took it as a real physical demand and postulated as such to go on to describe the laws of Special Relativity(SR). Most on here know that both Poincaré and Lorentz thought along similar lines to Einstein and SR, but he published a workable synopsis first.
Wes
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