Virtual Learning Lab: Special Relativity, Part 3, Relativistic Effects and Paradoxes!

Physics seems to work well on human scales, but why does classical physics seem to break at the largest and smallest ones? This series of videos, presented by Umar Ahmed Badami (CDB 2021 and CEO of Brilliants, a tutoring organization dedicated to helping underrepresented minorities) will discuss the physics on the scale of atoms and of galaxies.

In Lesson 3 of this series on special relativity, we’ll discuss the derivation of relativistic effects like length contraction and time dilation, and use them to analyze a puzzling relativistic paradox.

Link to Lesson 2: Math Time

Link to Lesson 1: Introduction to Special Relativity