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Lectures: 19 sessions / 4 weeks, 1.5 hours / session Optional Recitations: 2 session / week, 1 hour / session I. Introduction and Relativity Pre- Einstein II. Einstein's Principle of Relativity and a new Concept of Spacetime III. The Great Kinematic Consequences of Relativity IV. Velocity Addition and other Differential Transformations V. Kinematics and Paradoxes VI. Relativistic Momentum and Energy I: Basics VII. Relativistic Momentum and Energy II: Four Vectors and Transformation Properties VIII. General Relativity: Einstein's Theory of Gravity Detailed course outline ( PDF) 8.20 is an introduction to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. We will probably have a lecture or two to introduce his General Theory as well, but the principal focus will be on special relativity, which we will study in quite a bit of detail. If you have hoped to understand the physics of Lorentz contraction, time dilation, the twin paradox, and E=mc2, you're in the right place. 8.20 is a 9-unit course given in the four weeks of IAP. A 9-unit course is roughly equivalent to 30 hours a week for four weeks, be prepared to work hard! Problem sets will come upon you quickly. So will the midterm and the final. The course will be defined by the lectures. The reading is an important part of the course, but if you want to know what you are responsible for, it's the material that is presented in lecture unless otherwise explicitly stated. 8.20 is open to all MIT students who have completed or placed out of 8.01 ( Physics I - Classical Mechanics) and 18.01 ( Calculus I). Anyone in the MIT community who is familiar with elementary mechanics and who has a good knowledge of algebra (and a little knowledge of calculus) will find the course accessible. The following textbooks are required or strongly recommended. Readings will be assigned in Resnick and Halliday and in French. Einstein's book is a cultural.
This note covers the following topics: oscillators damped and driven and resonance (how to rock your car out of a snow bank or use a swing an introduction to Lagrangian mechanics and optimization, symmetries and Noether's theorem, special relativity, collisions and scattering, rotational motion, angular momentum, torque, the moment of inertia tensor (dynamic balance gravitation, planetary motion, and a quantitative introduction to some of the mind-bending ideas of modern cosmology like inflation and dark.
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