#academic_work
#ESAD_Matosinhos
#Final_degree_work
#June_2019
This is our final degree work. My group was composed by Eliana Gomes, Francisca Correia dos Santos and João Vieira, and we choose to work with the Einstein's Theory of Relativity. "Relativity and Space" was the title chosen for the project and the subtitle is presented as "Unraveling the Mysteries of the Cosmos". As a focal point in the response to this work we base ourselves on a quotation from Einstein. Which states that "If you can not explain it to a six-year-old child, you do not understand it yourself." We chose textual communication in bilingual - Portuguese and English - to expand the reach of possible users of our object, making it more universal. One strategy we found to distinguish the two languages was the use of a non-serifed font for Portuguese (Neue Haas Grotesk) and another serifada for English (Antwerp).
In the early twentieth century, Albert Einstein revolutionized the way scientists thought about space and time. Einstein's first idea of relativity theory was the result of an "imaginary experiment" he envisioned at age sixteen - imagined a plane wave moving with the speed of light and an observer moving in the same direction and speed. According to pre-relativistic theory, the observer should see the light wave standing still. This seemed absurd to him, and felt a need to revise the concepts of space and time then adopted, to avoid the paradox of the standing wave (SCHENBERG, 1984).
In the early twentieth century, Albert Einstein revolutionized the way scientists thought about space and time. Einstein's first idea of relativity theory was the result of an "imaginary experiment" he envisioned at age sixteen - imagined a plane wave moving with the speed of light and an observer moving in the same direction and speed. According to pre-relativistic theory, the observer should see the light wave standing still. This seemed absurd to him, and felt a need to revise the concepts of space and time then adopted, to avoid the paradox of the standing wave (SCHENBERG, 1984).
The contents of our book take the user on a tour of his ideas and his most impressive applications, from his theory of special relativity, to general relativity theory to Einstein's theory of space, time and gravity, where he predicts several new phenomena. Without a doubt, our objective for this project was the creation of an interactive book that would serve not only as a physical medium, but which could be manipulated to detect pertinent phenomena such as "space bending" or "the deviation that gravity exerts on the light, "as well as enhanced reality interface support with animated conceptual illustrations in videos.
In short, what we intend to communicate is to give the user the opportunity to know and understand the essentials of Einstein's theories in a more direct and interesting way.
In each of the chapters were represented some animations, as previously mentioned. The idea is to unite our analog and digital parts so that they complete and that make the project itself more interesting and interactive. The digital part then provides the important role of explaining in video form the illustrations presented, which when used the application in our mobile phone pointing to the same they will move.
In each of the chapters were represented some animations, as previously mentioned. The idea is to unite our analog and digital parts so that they complete and that make the project itself more interesting and interactive. The digital part then provides the important role of explaining in video form the illustrations presented, which when used the application in our mobile phone pointing to the same they will move.
With our project, we have been able to bring studied information, reinvented and practiced from the beginning to the present day, where everything is possible and much easier. While many years ago Einstein struggled with numbers to present results today we worked to spread this knowledge in the most varied practices and our project turned out to be one of them.
Here you have a short video showing how the app works. Download the app using the QR code and give it a try!
