Title :
Teaching Materials of Physics about Lorentz Contraction Generated by KETpic
Author :
Fukazawa, Kenji ; Takato, Setsuo
Author_Institution :
Kure Nat. Coll. of Technol., Kure, Japan
Abstract :
We report the examples of the teaching materials of physics generated by using KETpic, focusing on the Lorentz contraction. The represented examples are the observed images of the moving objects at the speed of 95 percent of the speed of light c, where a cubic and a sphere are taken as the objects. We also show the observed images of lines of electric and magnetic forces around the moving charged objects. The obtained images are largely distorted on account of the effect of the Lorentz contraction and the fact that the speed of light is limited and the same value in any frame.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; image recognition; object recognition; KETpic; Lorentz contraction; Physics teaching materials; electric forces; image observation; magnetic forces; Content addressable storage; Education; Educational institutions; Magnetic forces; Magnetic materials; Materials science and technology; Page description languages; Pharmaceutical technology; Physics computing; Spirals; Lorentz contraction; Scilab; physics; teaching materials;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Fukuoka
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3999-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6462-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICCSA.2010.31
