Relativator: The circular slide-rule for physicists

[robphy]

Relativator
(Posted Feb10-06 at 10:39 PM by robphy).

The Dec 2005/Jan 2006 issue of Fermilab/SLAC's publication http://www.symmetrymag.org/cms/ has a story http://www.symmetrymag.org/cms/?pid=1000234, "A circular slide-rule [which] allowed enthusiasts to perform calculations of Einstein's special relativity in a pre-calculator era."

[updated link: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2005january-2006/artifact-relativator ]

There's probably enough detail to make your own, say, as a set of Postscript or SVG pages... or maybe as a Java applet!

See also
http://entropybound.blogspot.com/2006/01/artifact-relativator.html

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

@robphy did you have any more insight on this topic?

 

[robphy]

Actually... I just revisited this a month ago when I was browsing through my files.