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Design Case study

Visually Understanding Theory of Relativity

Online interactive articleto explain the conceptual fundamentals

Jribh Shandilya and Prof. Venkatesh Rajamanickam

IDC, IIT Bombay

Case Study - Slide Show

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
      experienced
   - 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