Week 8: Introduction to Tensors
Learning Outcomes:
To understand Four Vector, Contravariant and Covariant vector and Einstein Summation Convention.
Lesson Plan:
Lesson 1:
Four Vector
Lesson 2:
Contavariant and Covariant vectors.
Lesson 3:
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Einstein Summation Convention.
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Raising and Lowering of Indices.
Book Readings: Pages 500-502, Introduction to Electrodynamics by David J. Griffiths.
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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
