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.
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 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.