This note covers Reference
frames, The postulates of special relativity, Consequences of the relativity
postulates, Proper time and the invariant interval, Lorentz transformations I,
Applications of the Lorentz transformation, The pole and barn paradox,
Relativistic velocity addition formula, The twin paradox, Lorentz transformation
II, The position 2 vector, 2 vectors, The velocity 2 vector, The energy momentum
2 vector, Binding energies and relativistic kinematics.
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
The contents of this lecture notes are : Preliminaries,
Differential geometry, Physical laws in curved spacetimes, The Schwarzschild
solution and classic tests of GR, Cosmology, Singularities and geodesic
incompleteness, Linearized theory and gravitational waves.
This book explains the
following topics: Space, Time, and Newtonian Physics, Maxwell, E and M, and the
Ether, Einstein and Inertial Frames, Minkowskian Geometry, Accelerating
Reference Frames, Dynamics, Relativity and the Gravitational Field, General
Relativity and Curved Spacetime, Black Hole, Cosmology.
This note covers the
following topics: Principle of Relativity, Lorentz transform, Simultaneous
events, causally connected events, Addition of velocities, 4-vectors: velocity,
energy-momentum, Energy-momentum of photon, Doppler effect, aberration,
Relativistic dynamics, Electromagnetic fields in different frames.