Week 5: Relativistic Velocity Transformation formula.
Learning Outcomes:
To learn how velocity changes when measured from other frame of reference according to Lorentz Transformations.
Lesson Plan:
Lesson 1:
Problem with Galilean velocity transformation formula.
Lesson 2:
Derive velocity transformation formula using Lorentz Transformations.
Lesson 3:
Solving Examples using velocity transformation formula.
Book Reading: Pages 129-130, Dynamics and Relativity by J. R. Forshaw and A. G. Smith. John Wiley and Sons (2009).
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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
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Saira Yasmeen
