Lorentz Transformation

Lorentz Transformation as explained by MIT undergraduate Steven Fine.

[samsand]

my right ear is now smarter than my left

[KoshyGeorge]

The audio is physically hurting me, did just add the audio to the left track ?

[pianistNorganist]

I'm literally watching this out to shear love of physics and want and need to learn quantum physics. I don't know how far this self teaching will go but if they can do it in the past so can I!

[FalkFlak]

too bad, the forms Ax+Bt and Dx+Et are neither well established nor explained in this video. Otherwise, this would be a good introduction.

[sidvaduvur]

This approximately 9 minute video helped me understand Lorentz Transformation than my professor's 3 hour lecture.

[shensley]

wow. . .for 5 minutes I thought my headphones suddenly were broken. face palm after reading these comments. . .

[arik]

Beautifully explained. I have a test tomorrow, and never heard of Lorentz transformations till about half an hour ago and this was just such a lovely, concise manageable explanation. So thank you. If you end up lecturing, just know your students would be very lucky to have you. I wish my lecturers explained things like that, it's obviously possible.

[GreatGeorge]

...Explained much better then my professor at college
Big Thumbs Up

[glimmersquared]

Happily you only confused one of my hemispheres.

[thalb]

hi steven, does MIT have a course on stereo audio recording?

[bagoquarks]

I was born in 1950. It has been my experience that someone who has just mastered a concept can be a very good teacher of it because the things that were confusing so recently are still fresh in mind. And here we have a freshman who has mastered the Lorentz Transformation "recently" explaining it very well.

[vahiddabbagh]

Sorry, I think you do not have enough information about history of science. Lorentz transformation occurred before special relativity. Einstein theory leads to this transformation. Lorentz derived these transformation to keep Maxwell's equation invariant.

[draganignjatovic]

The Lorenz Transformation
Einstein used the Lorenz transformation to describe Special Relativity in his 1905 paper, while here we see SR used to describe the Lorenz Transformation. What then, exactly, is the Lorenz Transformation? And why is the Pythagorean Theorem renamed to this exotic and esoteric sounding Lorenz Transformation*? Thank you in advance. *
*[Which in the 1905 paper, by the way, was used to describe non-Newtonian physics using Newtonian principles – just as confusing to an ordinary mortal like myself]

[shikhinmehrotra]

The most complicated way to explain such a simple thing. You could have just used a moving rocket with a light pulse bouncing off vertically from mirrors. So many other simple ways to visualize and derive using just Pythagoras theorem. Your video is a perfect example of how to complicate simple things.

[johnable]

But does your brain think that your left ear is far away or in it's usual position to your right ear ? to determine this fact one would need to know the speed of sound relative to air pressure or as in most cases altitude. This question was first posed by the famous dutch scientist van Gogh .

[tarunpurohit]

Brilliant professor it took me years to find out how

[ritilranjan]

3:15 how did you get to know that there must be a linear relationship between x dash and x, t and also between t dash and x, t. In other words, how can you be sure that A, B, D, E are constants and itself not functions of x or t?

[fullfungo]

My left ear knows too much now.
The right is just chilling there.

[broncojonnes]

damn to think of and develop such complex ideas, some human brains truly are astonishing

[Silveradost]

I watched this video because my friend wants to change his new name to Lorentz when he gets his citizenship and he's very excited about and loves physics. And I wanted to test my right audio channel. Great video by the way and well done! I feel smarter already ;-)