This note covers the following topics: Frames of Reference and Newton’s Laws, The Speed of Light, Michelson-morley
Experiment, Special Relativity, The Lorentz Transformations, Time Dilation,
Adding Velocities: A Walk On The Train, Relativistic Dynamics, Mass and Energy,
Energy and Momentum In Lorentz Transformations, Transforming Energy Into Mass
and How Relativity Connects Electric and Magnetic Fields.
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 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.