Episode 20 – AAAS Conference Presentation – Averages, Rates, and Functions RelativityChallenge.Com Podcast
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“I live 20 miles per hour from the University.” Is that statement confusing? It should be. In Episode 20, we take a look at Rates and Functions, and discuss how they have been mistreated for the past century. More importantly, we’ll take a look at how key concepts and mathematics can get confused if we don’t say the right thing. For example, would you feel confused if I had began with “I live 20 miles from the University.”? This Episode is a replay of a presentation that I delivered the Pacific Region AAAS conference at San Francisco State University in August 2009.
This Episode summarizes and synthesizes a lot of the material we’ve looked at over the past 9 videos. New visitors will find that it serves as a good introduction to the material on the site.
The following specific points are covered in this video:
A brief history of moving systems equations and SRT
A look at the mathematical and conceptual mistakes we’re still making today
Revisiting the improved results to the Michelson-Morley and Ives-Stillwell equations
Implications on position-based navigation systems
In addition to the video, a PDF version of the presentation is available for download.
Corrections:
At 15:10 – the arguments to the Tau function invocation in the Key Findings callout should be (x’,0,0,x’/(c-v)). This is corrected in the PDF.
At 16:20 – the callout should say “…Average of the Approaching and Receding Doppler shifts”
At 16:55 – I should have said “revising Michelson-Morley” instead of saying “revising Ives-Stillwell”
Update: I’ve added the following two links from the NPA Video Conference I delivered in October 2009. One link is for the video and the other is for the slides. I think this video is essentially the “Director’s cut” of the presentation.
Bonus: Download NPA Conference Video in Windows Media Format
Bonus: Download NPA Conference Video in PDF Format
http://www.relativitychallenge.com/media/RelativityChallenge.com-Episode20_iPod.m4vDownload Podcast | Open Player in New Window
Download in Windows Media Format
Download in PDF Format
“I live 20 miles per hour from the University.” Is that statement confusing? It should be. In Episode 20, we take a look at Rates and Functions, and discuss how they have been mistreated for the past century. More importantly, we’ll take a look at how key concepts and mathematics can get confused if we don’t say the right thing. For example, would you feel confused if I had began with “I live 20 miles from the University.”? This Episode is a replay of a presentation that I delivered the Pacific Region AAAS conference at San Francisco State University in August 2009.
This Episode summarizes and synthesizes a lot of the material we’ve looked at over the past 9 videos. New visitors will find that it serves as a good introduction to the material on the site.
The following specific points are covered in this video:
A brief history of moving systems equations and SRT
A look at the mathematical and conceptual mistakes we’re still making today
Revisiting the improved results to the Michelson-Morley and Ives-Stillwell equations
Implications on position-based navigation systems
In addition to the video, a PDF version of the presentation is available for download.
Corrections:
At 15:10 – the arguments to the Tau function invocation in the Key Findings callout should be (x’,0,0,x’/(c-v)). This is corrected in the PDF.
At 16:20 – the callout should say “…Average of the Approaching and Receding Doppler shifts”
At 16:55 – I should have said “revising Michelson-Morley” instead of saying “revising Ives-Stillwell”
Update: I’ve added the following two links from the NPA Video Conference I delivered in October 2009. One link is for the video and the other is for the slides. I think this video is essentially the “Director’s cut” of the presentation.
Bonus: Download NPA Conference Video in Windows Media Format
Bonus: Download NPA Conference Video in PDF Format
http://www.relativitychallenge.com/media/RelativityChallenge.com-Episode20_iPod.m4vDownload Podcast | Open Player in New Window
Download in Windows Media Format
Download in PDF Format