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Module 7.2     THE NATURE OF LIGHT

THE THEORY OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY

Ian Cooper
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      LIGHT and SPECIAL RELATIVITY

    1.   Special Relativity and Frames of Reference

    2.   Ether / Michelson-Morley Experiment / Rejection of ether hypothesis

    3.   Time Events / Simultaneity / Time Dilation Effect

    4.   Length Contraction Effect: Lorentz-Fitzerald Equation

    5.   Relativistic addition of velocities / The standard for length

    6.   Experimental Verifications: MUON DECAY

    7.   Experimental Verifications: Hafele-Keating Atomic Clocks Experiments

    8.   Experimental Verifications: Particle Accelerators

    9.   Cosmolgical Verifications: DOPPLER EFFECT for Light

    10.   Relativistic momentum

    11.   Relativistic energies

    12.   Equivalence of Mass and Energy E0 = m c2

    13.   Matter and Antimatter / Particle - Antiparticle Interactions

    14.   Nuclear Reactions Made Simple: Experimental Verification of Special Relativity

    15.   Nuclear Reactions:  Binding Energy

    16.   Nuclear Reactions:  Nuclear Transformations

    17.   Nuclear Reactions - Radioactivity:  Alpha Decay

    18.   Nuclear Reactions - Radioactivity:  Beta Decay

    19.   Nuclear Reactions:  Nuclear Fission

    20.   Nuclear Reactions:  Nulcear Fusion




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