8.033 Relativity, Fall 2003
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Author(s)
Rappaport, S. A., 1942-
Alternative Title
Relativity
Date Issued
December 2003
Abstract
Normally taken by physics majors in their sophomore year. Einstein's postulates; consequences for simultaneity, time dilation, length contraction, clock synchronization; Lorentz transformation; relativistic effects and paradoxes; Minkowski diagrams; invariants and four-vectors; momentum, energy and mass; particle collisions. Relativity and electricity; Coulomb's law; magnetic fields. Brief introduction to Newtonian cosmology. Introduction to some concepts of General Relativity; principle of equivalence. The Schwarzchild metric; gravitational red shift, particle and light trajectories, geodesics, Shapiro delay.
Subjects
Einstein's postulates
consequences for simultaneity, time dilation, length contraction, clock synchronization
Lorentz transformation
Minkowski diagrams
particle collisions
Coulomb's law
magnetic fields
Newtonian cosmology
General Relativity
gravitational red shift
particle trajectories
light trajectories
invariants
four-vectors
momentum
energy
mass
relativistic effects
paradoxes
electricity
time dilation
length contraction
clock synchronization
Schwarzchild metric
geodesics
Shaprio delay
relativistic kinematics
relativistic dynamics
electromagnetism
hubble expansion
universe
equivalence principle
curved space time
Ether Theory
constants
speed of light
c
graph
pythagorem theorem
triangle
arrows
Relativity
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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