Special Relativity-Lorentz Transformations

Description
Analysis of results of Michelson- Morley experiment lads to Einstein's postulates.relativity and measurement and fourth dimension of co-ordinates is introduced. A beautiful illustration using clocks attached to lattice points shows how the clock time define the space time co-ordinates of an event.Relativity in simultaneity is explained with examples.Lorentz's Transformations and its requirements, time like events, space like events etc are discussed.

Prof. Stanley Kowalski, Physics 8.01 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare),http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed Aug 5th,2011). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/#cc