8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity, January IAP 2005

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Knuteson, Bruce
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Introduction to Special Relativity
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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.
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2005
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/140863
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8.20-JanuaryIAP2005
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8.20
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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
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