Recent content by Michael C Fowler

Thank you both for helping me. I would further appreciate each of you letting me know that you have received this note as I don't yet know how to use this site. I don't yet know the difference between a tag and a thread. You get the idea. Thanks again. I will be back for help, honest. Mike...

Thank you both for helping me. I would further appreciate each of you letting me know that you have received this note as I don't yet know how to use this site. I don't yet know the difference between a tag and a thread. You get the idea. Thanks again. I will be back for help, honest. Mike...

Thank you both for helping me. I would further appreciate each of you letting me know that you have received this note as I don't yet know how to use this site. I don't yet know the difference between a tag and a thread. You get the idea. Thanks again. I will be back for help, honest. Mike...

I'm trying to understand special relativity well enough to explain it to others, ANY others, including myself. I am trying to use Robert Resnick's Introduction to Special Relativity to inform my thinking. In introducing length contraction, he introduces L' as the length measured by an observer...