Plan

• Canvas quiz on week's reading
• Simultaneity is relative to the observer
• Time dilation
• Twin paradox
• Length contraction

In-class discussion

• Rider on railroad flatcar with flashbulbs
• Time dilation argument.
• Hogg Problem 2.1 Time dilation intro
• Twin paradox. Where is the asymmetry?

In-class group problems

• Hogg Problem 1.2

In-class notes pdf

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