Week 1: Introduction and Background.
Learning Outcomes:
- To understand concept of absolute space and time.
- To understand Galilean transformations and Galileo's principle of relativity.
- To check invariance of different laws of Physics under Galilean transformations.
Lesson Plan:
Lesson 1: Introduction to course and program, Basic concepts of absolute space and time.
Lesson 2: To derive Galilean transformations and law of addition of velocities.
Lesson 3: Checking invariance of Newtons laws and Maxwel's quations under Galiean transformations
Pages 159-163, Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell By A. Zee
Course Material
- Week 1: Introduction and Background.
- Week 2: Experimental Evidence.
- Week 3: Einstein's Postulates of Special Relativity.
- Week 4: Lorentz Transformations.
- Week 5: Relativistic Velocity Transformation formula.
- Week 6: Problem Solving.
- Week 7: Invariant Interval.
- Week 8: Introduction to Tensors
- Week 9: Lorentz Transformations in Tensor Notation.
- Week 10: Relativistic Mechanics.
- Week 11: Relativistic Dynamics
- Week 12: Principle of Equivalence and its Consequences
- Week 13: Einstein's Field Equations and General Theory of Relativity
- Week 14: Cosmology
- Chapters 14
- Department Physics(SCB)
- Teacher
Saira Yasmeen
