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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