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For most students, including myself, putting SR in this context is important. I'm quite mathematical, but diving straight into...

I start with a chart showing the values of ##v## and ##\gamma## for the motions of different objects. Starting with maybe a race car...

Well, we create models. That's physics. Describe and predict the way Nature behaves using models. No, because we have additional...

It's not moving only at the instant it makes contact.

Those are not the most basic axioms of thermodynamics. By "simply taught" I assume you mean only a spoken or written explanation is...

I would guess that the determining factor would be the traction of the hooves, which of course depends on the soil conditions. I doubt...

I used to think that way, but then along came virtual particles. Those many philosophers who had been unhappy with forces magically...

A.T. gave an excellent answer in post #2, but perhaps the original question was even simpler than we made it: if a clock moves fast...

It depends what you mean by "slowly". If you mean "if I, at rest on the ground, were to take a series of close-up pictures of the fast...

Nope. Just nope. Pushing the water through faster, even if it produced water, the water would not be filtered.

A lightning bolt can be many kilometres long as well as reach high altitudes. There is sound transmitted through the ground as well as...

I'm not sure I like the metaphor of "standing above their pupils", at least in a STEM teaching environment. I've tutored numerous folks...

I can't speak for the OP and I don't know if you're referring to this equation in particular or in general. But this is what I would...

I am late to this thread and may not have a full understanding of the current context of the discussion, but for a general rigid object...

Yes, but not that they are parallel, which was the original statement.