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∟The Relativity of Simultaneity

∟What Is the Relativity of Simultaneity

This section provides a quick introduction on the relativity of simultaneity, a phenomenon where two events happening in two different locations that occur simultaneously in one reference frame, occur non-simultaneously in another reference frame that is relatively moving.

What Is the Relativity of Simultaneity? The relativity of simultaneity in special relativity refers to the phenomenon where two events happening in two different locations that occur simultaneously in one reference frame, occur non-simultaneously in another reference frame that is relatively moving.

Or we can say that distant simultaneity, whether two spatially separated events occur at the same time, is not absolute. It is relative to the observer's reference frame.

Or we simply say that simultaneity is relative.

For example, a flash of light is given off at the center of a carriage moving at a high speed. Amy, on the moving carriage, will observe that light pulses will reach the front wall and the back wall at the same time. But Bob, on the ground, will observe that light pulses will reach the front wall and the back wall at different times.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of Space

 Introduction of Frame of Reference

 Introduction of Time

 Introduction of Speed

 Newton's Laws of Motion

 Introduction of Special Relativity

 Time Dilation in Special Relativity

 Length Contraction in Special Relativity

►The Relativity of Simultaneity

►What Is the Relativity of Simultaneity

 Formula for the Relativity of Simultaneity

 Introduction of Spacetime

 Minkowski Spacetime and Diagrams

 Introduction of Hamiltonian

 Introduction of Lagrangian

 Introduction of Generalized Coordinates

 Phase Space and Phase Portrait

 References

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What Is the Relativity of Simultaneity - Updated in 2022, by Herong Yang