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Module SPECIAL RELATIVITY

Module code: MP352
Credits: 5
Semester: 2
Department: THEORETICAL PHYSICS
International: Yes
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The ether, Michelson-Morley experiment, Lorentz transformations, Minkowski space, length contraction and time dilation, relativistic kinematics, four vectors, relativistic optics and electromagnetism, experimental tests of relativity, GPS, Einstein's 1905 papers.

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