8.033 Relativity, Fall 2003

8.033 Relativity, Fall 2003

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...

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Main Author: Rappaport, S. A., 1942-
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Learning Object
Language:en-US
Published: 2003
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
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39131

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