8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity, January IAP 2005
Author(s)
Knuteson, Bruce
Alternative Title
Introduction to Special Relativity
Date Issued
2005
Abstract
This course introduces the basic ideas and equations of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. If you have hoped to understand the physics of Lorentz contraction, time dilation, the "twin paradox", and E=mc2, you're in the right place.AcknowledgementsProf. Knuteson wishes to acknowledge that this course was originally designed and taught by Prof. Robert Jaffe.
Subjects
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
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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