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8.033 Relativity
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Prereq: Calculus II (GIR) and Physics II (GIR)
Units: 5-0-7
Lecture: MW2-3.30 (6-120) Recitation: TR10 (2-143) or TR11 (2-143) or TR1 (56-162) or TR2 (56-162) +final
Einstein's postulates; consequences for simultaneity, time dilation, length contraction, and clock synchronization; Lorentz transformation; relativistic effects and paradoxes; Minkowski diagrams; invariants and four-vectors; momentum, energy, and mass; particle collisions. Relativity and electricity; Coulomb's law; magnetic fields. Brief introduction to Newtonian cosmology. Introduction to some concepts of general relativity; principle of equivalence. The Schwarzchild metric; gravitational red shift; particle and light trajectories; geodesics; Shapiro delay.
S. Vitale
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