a visualization of the Clock Effect

visualrelativity.com New Ideas for Teaching Relativity and New Ideas for Visualizing Relativity Rob Salgado (current academic homepage)

since Aug 6, 2009.

• Visualizing Spacetime Models and the Causal Structure (Light Cones)
  • (1995) The Light Cone: an Illuminating Introduction to Relativity - relativity, visualized and animated on the web
  • (1998-present) Visualizing Causal Sets (Partial Orders)
• Visualizing Spacetime Geometry (Spacetime Diagrams)
  • (1997-present) Spacetime Trigonometry - a unified presentation of Galilean and Special Relativity
  • (1999-present) Spacetime Trigonometry - The Trilogy of the Surveyors
  • (2006) AAPT Topical Conference - Teaching General Relativity to Undergraduates (Syracuse, NY - July 20-21, 2006)
    - [Salgado-SpacetimeTrigonometry]
    - Salgado-GRposter.pdf
    original links:
    AAPT Topical Conference - Teaching General Relativity to Undergraduates (Syracuse, NY - July 20-21, 2006)
    - Teaching General Relativity to Undergraduates (via archive.org)
    [Salgado-SpacetimeTrigonometry]
    - (archive.org) Salgado-GRposter.pdf (local copy: Salgado-GRposter.pdf)
    
• Visualizing Tensors and Differential Forms
  • (1996) VRML Gallery of Electromagnetism
  • (2001) Visual Tensor Calculus
  • (2006) Gordon Research Conference (Physics Research and Education: Electromagnetism, 2006)
    - Visualizing Vector and Tensor Fields in Electromagnetism poster
  • (2007)Gordon Research Conference (Visualization in Science and Education, 2007)
    - Visualizing Tensors and their Algebra, with applications for Electromagnetism and Relativity poster
  • (2007) AAPT Topical Conference (Davidson College, 2007), AAPT Summer 2007 meeting (Greensboro, 2007)
    - [Salgado-abstract] - [Salgado-talk.pdf poster]
• Visualizing Proper-Time along a worldline
  (1997) Twin Paradox Applet
  (2001) Visualizing Proper-Time in Special Relativity [with a Light Clock] - an animated "lightclock diagram"
  (2005) Visualizing proper-time in Special Relativity - arxiv.org/abs/physics/0505134
  (2012) Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper - arxiv.org/abs/1111.7254
• Assorted
  • (1996) Fun with Curvature Tensors
  • (1997) Some Identities for the Einstein Tensor
  • (2001-present) Rob's page of VPython applications for Teaching Physics (old: http://physics.syr.edu/~salgado/software/vpython/)
  • (2005) Notes on Radar Methods and the Bondi k-Calculus

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  • [relativity-related] Notes for Courses Taught:
    • (1993) Modern Physics (Syracuse U., PHY 261)
    • (1995) Science for the 21st Century (Syracuse U., PHY 105) [see The Light Cone above]
    • (2000) Advanced Topics: An Introduction to Spacetime Physics (Truman State U.)
    • (2002) Modern Physics (Dillard U.)
    • (2009) Special Relativity with Spacetime Trigonometry (Mount Holyoke College)
    • (2011) Physics of the Twentieth Century (Bowdoin College)