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Prof Ramamurti Shankar has this Youtube video 'Introduction to Relativity' at
And in it he derives the Lorentz Transforms something like this, at about 58 minutes into it.
|------------------------- t ----------------------| time
|-----ut---------------|---------- x' -------------|
|--------------------------- x --------------------|x' = (x - ut)Ɣ
x = (x'+ ut')Ɣ
Ɣ = 1/(√(1 - (u²/c²)))
x'= (x - ut)/(√(1-u²/c²))
I thought I understood but I now find I don't. Because when I look at that last equation it seems to me that x' is going to increase in length as speed increases.
There's a failure in my understanding somewhere. Can someone please point it out to me?
And in it he derives the Lorentz Transforms something like this, at about 58 minutes into it.
|------------------------- t ----------------------| time
|-----ut---------------|---------- x' -------------|
|--------------------------- x --------------------|x' = (x - ut)Ɣ
x = (x'+ ut')Ɣ
Ɣ = 1/(√(1 - (u²/c²)))
x'= (x - ut)/(√(1-u²/c²))
I thought I understood but I now find I don't. Because when I look at that last equation it seems to me that x' is going to increase in length as speed increases.
There's a failure in my understanding somewhere. Can someone please point it out to me?