SPECIAL RELATIVITY

Film : Relativistic Time Dilation

Length(min.):12, Color: Yes, Sound: Yes , by Paul Hewett, 1976

An animated treatment of the concept of time dilation, using a flashing light sequence to show the different rates of aging of twins in different frames of reference. On earth, one twin gets on a rocket ship that travels away from the earth, then turns around and comes back. The clocks on the earth show a longer time for the entire trip than the clocks aboard the rocket ship. The twin on earth is older than the twin that took the rocket trip.