Special Relativity
General Relativity
Spacetime
Speed of Light
Equivalence Principle
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Developed special relativity
What is Einstein
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The year general relativity was developed
What is 1915
100
Invented in this year
What is 1905
100
Equation of the speed of light
What is E=mc^2
100
Discovered in this year
What is 1907
200
Year special relativity was developed
What is 1905
200
This is what massive objects cause
What is distortions in spacetime
200
Led Einstein to discover this principle
What is Equivalence Principle
200
You can accelerate to reach the speed of light
What is false
200
Einstein called his discovery of the Equivalence Principle this
What is the happiest thought of his life
300
Was updated into this
What is General Relativity
300
General relativity explains these phenomenon
What is black holes, gravity bending light, planetary orbit
300
This person discovered that spacetime consists of four dimensions
What is Hermann Minkowski
300
As an object approaches the speed of light, this happens
What is mass increases
300
This is how Einstein discovered the Equivalence Principle
He imagined what it would be like to drop a ball while falling from a building
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Main point of special relativity
What is what's relative and what's absolute about time, space, and motion
400
General relativity equation
What is R=GE
400
Gravity is __ where spacetime is most __ and __ where it is most __
What is strongest, curved; weakest, flat
400
This is the only way for an object to travel at the speed of light
What is its initial speed must be the speed of light
400
Gravitation is equivalent to this
What is acceleration
500
Special Relativity explains the original interpretations of these
What is spacetime and the speed of light
500
This is what G in the equation of general relativity stands for
What is gravitational constant
500
This tells __ how to curve and this tells __ how to move
What is matter, spacetime; curved spacetime, matter
500
This much energy is needed to reach the speed of light
What is infinite energy
500
An observer can "transform away" gravity by doing this
What is moving to the accelerated frame of reference
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