Visually Understanding Theory of Relativity
Design process that was followed in this project:
• Introduction
• Aims and Objectives
• Scope
• Methodology
- Secondary Research
- Design
- Product Testing
• Literature Review
- Special Relativity
- General Relativity
- Data Visualisation
- Interactive Online Articles
• Topic Structuring and Conceptual Visualizations
• Special Relativity
- The Speed of Light is Constant- Why?
- What are reference frames?
- Restricted Principle of Relativity
- How can the speed of light be constant in different reference frames?
- What is simultaneous?
- The plank also moves through time
- Space and time are one
- Everything travels at ‘c’ through Spacetime
- Photon tube- The cosmic speedometer
- Spacetime plot (speedometer) to see the effect of relative speed on length and time
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- Lorentz Transformations using the Cosmic Speedometer
- Worldlines and light cones
• General Relativity and Curved Spacetime
- Accelerating Reference Frames
- A Rotating Disc
- Straight Lines and Multiple Dimensions
- Mass Curves Spacetime
- Worldlines in curved spacetime - Gravity
- Embedding Diagrams- Rolling Up Curved Spacetime
- Embedding diagrams of different masses
- Gravity in Embedding Diagrams
- How Light Moves in Embedding Diagrams
- Visualising space and time curvature together
- Light curves in gravitational fields
- Visualising all four dimensions of spacetime
• Discussion on Topic Structuring and Visualisations
• Comparing My Visualisations to Existing Ones
• Expert Feedback During the Project
• Final Prototype
• Product Evaluation Plan
• Product Evaluation Results
• Conclusion
• Reflections and Future Scope
• References
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