Relativity 104b: Special Relativity – Lorentz Transform Equations Derivation

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Einstein’s original 1905 paper on Special Relativity: “One the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”
http://chiuphysics.cgu.edu.tw/yun-ju/cguweb/PhyChiu/H305Relativity/EinsteinSpecialRelativity.pdf

0:00 Intro
1:46 The ct axis
5:02 The β coefficient
6:48 Slopes of Time/Position Axes
9:55 Spacing between gridlines
11:42 Solving for γ
14:14 Lorentz Transformation keeps areas the same
16:18 Summary