Special Relativity S.A.C preparation help

[Mr.Lazy]

Okay so when i was browsing the forums today i was looking for anything to do with special relativity because we have our S.A.C  on it the first day back and so i have to make a cheat sheet but it seems (I could be very wrong) that not many other people did/do special relativity

so if anybody has a cheat sheet with ideas and things that they might have put on their own that would be a great help

[Lasercookie]

There's some really good websites that I used for special relativity last year.
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/
http://www.rafimoor.com/english/SRE.htm

The other resources I used: Feynman Lectures on Physics and just lecture notes from MIT OpenCourseWare etc. These do go a bit off the VCE course, so probably not worth reading those right before your SAC (as you might come across a few interesting sentences and confuse yourself)

I don't have my cheatsheet from last year anymore, but the stuff that's worth putting on it (this might be a bit more exam oriented, but should be fine for your sac). I ended up dedicating a single A4 page just to special relativity stuff on my cheat sheet.


Quick summaries (2 sentences each) of the history/development e.g.
Galileo:
Maxwell:
Michelson-Morley:
Einstein: (be sure to have the postulates written out in full)

A few definitions

Formulas, Formulas, Formulas (particularly derived ones etc. the ones that aren't on the formula sheet)

A table of values for the Lorentz Factor (to provide for a quick reference/double check answers)

A list of proper values and what happens to their relativistic values (e.g. mass will get heavier etc.)


Basically, you want to put on the kind of things that will help speed up the way you do questions, and provide a solid reference for pretty much any of those more 'qualitative' kind of questions (the ones where you shouldn't need to do any calculations).
 

[Mr.Lazy]

Alrighty thank you very much this is a huge help much appreciated