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 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: 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.