Annotation
The experience of teaching general relativity based on the spacetime diagram, or Minkowski diagram, is discussed. Main special relativity effects, such as time dilation and length contraction, deduce easily by geometrical constructions on the diagram and <<event>> and <<measurement>> concepts.
Received: 2022 November 11
Approved: 2023 January 13
PACS:
01.40.gb Teaching methods and strategies
01.40.Di Course design and evaluation
01.55.+b General physics
03.30.+p Special relativity
01.40.Di Course design and evaluation
01.55.+b General physics
03.30.+p Special relativity
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Authors
A. V. Seliverstov
$^1$1 Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
$^1$1 Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
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