Student handout: Possible Worldlines
Theoretical Mechanics 2020
Student consider several curves on a spacetime diagram and have to judge which curves could be worldlines for an object.
- assignment_ind Small White Board Question 10 min. A way to project the graph and a way for students to indicate their answers (e.g. with a small whiteboard). Student handout (PDF)
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Special Relativity Spacetime Diagrams Worldlines Postulates of Relativity
What students learn
- Speed on a spacetime diagram is inverse slope.
- Object can't travel faster than the speed of light.
- Lightlines have a slope of 1 (when axes are scaled to the same units)
- Keywords
- Special Relativity Spacetime Diagrams Worldlines Postulates of Relativity
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