Through Einstein's Eyes
Antony C. Searle, Craig M. Savage, Paul A. Altin, Francis H. Bennet, Michael R. Hush
Abstract
We have developed a relativistically-accurate computer graphics code and have used it to produce photo-realistic images and videos of scenes where special relativistic effects dominate, either in astrophysical contexts or in imaginary worlds where the speed of light is only a few metres per second. The videos have been integrated into our under-graduate teaching programme for several years. Recently we took the next step, encouraging undergraduate students to use the code to explore relativity, develop their own videos, and eventually package them together into Through Einstein's Eyes, a multimedia CD.
Create a lesson
Related papers
Active Learning with Generative AI in Introductory Physics: A Multi-Institutional Study of the P-A.I.R. Framework
Bilas Paul, Shantanu Chakraborty, Shruti Shrestha et al.
"Existential dread": Student and faculty views on the impact of changes in federal science funding to physics research
Meagan Sundstrom, Ian Olivant, Eric Brewe
Combining heavy-tailed keystroke dynamics with eye tracking reveals temporal flexibility in human problem solving
Yavuz Dinc, Fabian Kieser, Peter Wulff et al.
From Venus to the Parking Lot: A Flexible Stellar Interferometry Experiment
Eric J. Friedman, Michelle Goman
Teaching quantum mechanics in secondary schools: A qubit-first learning path to Bell's inequalities
Alberto Carlini, Andrea Lanza, Dalida Monti et al.
Connectivism as an Innovative Didactic Experience in Preservice Physics Teacher Education
Daniel Alejandro Valderrama, Karen Alexandra Gutiérrez Amaya