This note covers the
following topics: oscillators damped and driven and resonance (how to rock your
car out of a snow bank or use a swing), an introduction to Lagrangian mechanics
and optimization, symmetries and Noether's theorem, special relativity,
collisions and scattering, rotational motion, angular momentum, torque, the
moment of inertia tensor (dynamic balance), gravitation, planetary motion, and a
quantitative introduction to some of the mind-bending ideas of modern cosmology
like inflation and dark energy.
This note explains the following topics: Special relativity, Prelude to
general relativity, Differential geometry and tensor calculus, Curvature and
general relativity.
Author(s): Dr. Juan A. Valiente Kroon,University of
London
This book discusses one
of the crowning achievements of modern physics: the General Theory of
Relativity (GR). Major topics covered includes: Special Relativity, Index
Notation, Electromagnetism, Accelerated Motion, Equivalence Principle,
Curved Space and Metrics, Geodesics, Tensors, Black Holes, Einstein Equation
and Cosmology.
This book explains the following
topics: Frames of Reference, Newtonian Relativity, Einsteinian Relativity,
Geometry of Flat Spacetime, Electrodynamics in Special Relativity.