Purdue PHYS 342 L13.4: Special Relativity-Kinematics Relativistic Velocity Transformations

Table of Contents:
00:09 Lecture 13.4: Relativistic Velocity Transformations
00:47 How do velocities transform?
01:57 Velocity transformation – along direction of relative motion
06:32 Velocity transformation for y and z (perpendicular to relative motion)
08:21 Example I
10:22 Implications of Lorentz Velocity Transformation
13:02 Launch angle measured
15:01 Example II
17:33 b). Calculate u'
18:43 Velocity Addition – motion in x direction ONLY
22:41 Notation
23:12 Example A: What is speed of the red ship wrt the green ship?
27:23 Up Next

Purdue PHYS 342 provides an introduction to the physical principles underlying topics in Modern Physics. This course is intended to provide engineering undergraduate students with a firm base from which they can extend their understanding of the quantum world.