- Series
- Other Talks
- Time
- Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 7:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Clough Undergraduate Learning Center Room 144
- Speaker
- John de Pillis – University of California, Riverside – johndepillis@earthlink.net
- Organizer
- Lew Lefton
Using basic linear algebra as a natural language of special relativity, and assuming very little knowledge of physics, we present a novel linear-algebraic derivation of the Lorentz transformation. Through the geometry of Minkowski diagrams, we analyze properties and paradoxes of special relativity including the Twin paradox and the bug-rivet paradox.Dr. de Pillis is a renowned cartoonist and animator, and his new book entitled Illustrated Special Relativity Through its Paradoxes is a fusion of Linear Algebra, Graphics, and Reality.