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    High School Did James Clerk Maxwell Ever Draw a Picture of an Electromagnetic Wave?

    Thanks! Does anyone else have any ideas regarding this? Thanks! :)
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    High School Did James Clerk Maxwell Ever Draw a Picture of an Electromagnetic Wave?

    Did James Clerk Maxwell Ever Draw a Picture of an Electromagnetic Wave in any of his notebooks? Who was the first one to draw one? Would love to find the first picture representing it all! I am looking for the first example of a drawing looking like this showing the perpendicular sinusoidal...
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    Graduate How Can a Photon Oscillate with a Frequency If Time Stops at Light Speed?

    If time stops at the velocity of light, how can a photon oscillate with a frequency? Frequency is defined with cycles/second.
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    Graduate How does one get time dilation, length contraction, and E=mc^2 from spacetime metric?

    OK I found a concise way to derive time dilation & length contraction from the spacetime metric: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_special_relativity#Clock_delays_and_rod_contractions:_more_on_Lorentz_transformations Does anyone know how to derive E=mc^2 from time dilation and/or...
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    Graduate How does one get time dilation, length contraction, and E=mc^2 from spacetime metric?

    Thanks! Is there a quick answer of any resources on the web? Thanks! :)
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    Graduate How does one get time dilation, length contraction, and E=mc^2 from spacetime metric?

    How does one get time dilation, length contraction, and E=mc^2 from the spacetime metric? Suppose all that you are given is x12 + x22 + x32 - c2t2 = s2 How do you derive time dilation, length contraction, and E=mc^2 from this? What is the most direct way to do this?