Week 7: Invariant Interval.
Learning Outcomes:
To understand Invariant Interval, Light Cone and Causality.
Lesson Plans:
Lesson 1:
Invariant Interval.
Lesson 2:
Light Cone.
Lesson 3:
Causality.
Book Reading:
Pages 502-506, Introduction to Electrodynamics by David J. Griffiths.
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
