Sunday, January 11, 2009

Two BIG Letters

Click on the following to see some big letters of the world !

(1) Lincoln's Letter to His Son's Teacher

(2) Nehru's Letters to his daughter

For some details, go HERE !
To get one, go HERE or a library!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Relativistic Phenomena !

When the speed of an object relative to other is very high, close to the speed of light (c = 300000 km/s), the world that would be seen by the object is weird and different from the everyday world. The phenomena that occur at high speeds (or energy) are called the relativistic phenomena. The Special Theory of Relativity deals with all these phenomena of the WORLD OF BIG !

The Special Relativistic phenomena include LENGTH CONTRACTION (sometimes also called the LORENTZ CONTRACTION), TIME DILATION, INCREASE OF MASS and so on, which are beyond our intuition.

Enjoy the following you tube videos of some of these phenomena.

(1) General description of Special Relativity

(2) Length Contraction

(3) Time dilation



Also click on the following links:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/relativity/
http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/sr/sr.shtml

(4) Simultaneity


Here is more

Friday, January 9, 2009

The New Scientist and the Physics World

Click on HERE and HERE to get physics-related news !