{"id":168,"date":"2022-01-08T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/graphical-simulation\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T05:26:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T05:26:18","slug":"graphical-simulation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/mathnotes\/physics\/sample-page-2\/special-relativity\/graphical-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphical Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the case of just one space dimension we can draw a 2D picture space-time. These space-time diagrams are often helpful in understanding and resolving questions about special relativity, but the way they look depends on the choice of which observer&#8217;s world line matches the vertical axis. So I have made <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/math\/applets\/SRSim\/index.htm\">an applet<\/a> which allows the same history to be viewed and animated from the perspectives of several different observers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See https:\/\/qpr.ca\/math\/applets\/SRSim\/index.htm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the case of just one space dimension we can draw a 2D picture space-time. These space-time diagrams are often helpful in understanding and resolving questions about special relativity, but the way they look depends on the choice of which observer&#8217;s world line matches the vertical axis. So I have made an applet which allows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/mathnotes\/physics\/sample-page-2\/special-relativity\/graphical-simulation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Graphical Simulation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":141,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions\/271"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}