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• Week 1: Introduction of Special Theory of Relativity, Galilean Transformation
• Week 2: Effect of velocity of a medium on the motion of the particle, Michelson Morley Experiment
• Week 3: Postulates of Special Theory of Relativity, Lorentz transformations. Lorentz transformations (for motion along one axis).
• Week 4: Relativity of Simultaneity, Minkowski Space and Lorentz Transformation
• Week 5: General Lorentz Transformation with out rotation and Length contraction.
• Week 6: Time dilation, Transformation Law for Velocity, Homogeneous Lorentz Transformation
• Week 7: Mid Term Exam
• Week 8: Introduction to 4-vector formalism. Lorentz transformations in the 4-vector formalism.
• Week 9: Position 4-Velocity, 4-Momentum, Transformation Law for 4-Velocity and Momentum
• Week 10: 4-Acceleration, Transformation law for 4-Acceleration
• Week 11: Motion of the Charged Particle in Uniform Transverse Electric field
• Week 12: Mass energy Relationship
• Week 13: Binding Energy, Particle Production and Decay
• Week 14: Doppler Shift Effect, Transformation law of energy
• Week 15: Compton Effect and its Numerical Problems
• Week 16: Special relativity with small acceleration.
• Week 17: Lorentz and Poincare groups
• Week 18: Final Term