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| - This small group activity is designed to help upper division undergraduate students analyze a standard problem about colliding lumps of clay. | - This small group activity is designed to help upper division undergraduate students analyze a standard problem about colliding lumps of clay. | ||
| - | - Students work in small groups and use relativistic kinematics and conservation laws to study the collision of lumps of clay. | + | - Students work in small groups using relativistic kinematics and conservation laws to study the collision of lumps of clay. |
| - | - The whole class wrap-up discussion summarizes group findings, pointing out that in special relativity mass is not conserved. | + | - The whole class wrap-up discussion summarizes group findings, pointing out that mass is not conserved in special relativity. |
