8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity, January IAP 2005

8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity, January IAP 2005

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 wish...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knuteson, Bruce
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Learning Object
Language:en-US
Published: 2022
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
141201
Engineering Physics
400810
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/140863
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Summary: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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