Einstein's theory of relativity in animations and film clips. Einstein Light (original) (raw)

Einstein's theory of special relativity includes electricity and magnetism in a simple, logical extension of the relativity of Galileo and Newton. Its conclusions, including time dilation, length contraction, and E=mc2 have changed profoundly our ideas of time and space, matter and energy.

The multimedia modules give a brief overview of relativity - they present the main ideas. Inevitably, you will have questions. So the related links (below) give more complete explanations, at levels with () or without mathematics ().

The multimedia modules have animations and film clips and are typically 2Mb. The much smaller HTML versions have only text and images. We are currently replacing the remaining Flash objects (.swf) with .mp4.

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