Tensors and Relativity: Chapter 1

The Special Theory of Relativity

• Pre- relativistic physics
• The equations of electromagnetism
• The principle of Special Relativity
• Spacetime diagrams and the Lorentz transformations
• The spacetime interval
• Minkowski spacetime
  • The null cone
• Consequences of the Einstein postulates
  • Time dilation
  • Length contraction
  • The twin paradox
• Velocity composition law
• Index
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