Time Dilation & Length Contraction
Try this: Find the speed at which the ship's clock ticks half as fast.
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About this simulation
One light clock, two frames, and the geometry that makes both observers right.
Taught in Special Relativity
- time dilation
- length contraction
- invariance of c
- simultaneity
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