SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- Module code: MP352
- Credits: 5
- Semester: 1
- Department: THEORETICAL PHYSICS
- International:
- Coordinator: Dr Joost Slingerland (THEORETICAL PHYSICS)
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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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