2003/01/31 by Roberto Assumpcao
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.ed-ph #physics.class-ph
published as iNEER Conference for Engineering Education and Research, Tainan, Taiwan, March 1-5, 2005 · 7 pages,4 figures,replaced to conform with published version, published title:"Basic Sciences and Engineering: An Experimental Strategy to Teach Relativity and Quantum Mechanics in Introductory Physics Courses"
arxiv created 2005/07/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
This contribution shows that the main topics of Relativity can be discussed at an elementary level and in a considerable extent - including the formal results of "Time Dilation" and "Lorentz Contraction" - by a minor modification of the usual mathematical formalism employed to describe uniform and accelerated motion. The proposed strategy begins with a "free-fall" experiment, followed by a discussion of the results in order to include deviations of the experimental data with respect to the conventional kinematics model.