| Title: | 8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity, January (IAP) 2003 |
| Author: | Jaffe, Robert L. |
| Issue Date: | 2003-01 |
| Abstract: | Introduces the basic ideas and equations of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Topics include: Lorentz transformations, length contraction and time dilation, four vectors, Lorentz invariants, relativistic energy and momentum, relativistic kinematics, Doppler shift, space-time diagrams, relativity paradoxes, and some concepts of General Relativity. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35897 |
| Other Identifiers: | 8.20-January(IAP)2003 |
| Other Identifiers: | 8.20 IMSCP-MD5-dffd69eb43297071acd5420f9b048ea7 |
| Keywords: | Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, Lorentz transformations, length contraction, time dilation, four vectors, Lorentz invariants, relativistic energy and momentum, relativistic kinematics, Doppler shift, space-time diagrams, relativity paradoxes, General Relativity, Special relativity (Physics), 141201, Engineering Physics |
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