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Introduction to Special Relativity
This note covers Reference frames, The postulates of special relativity, Consequences of the relativity postulates, Proper time and the invariant interval, Lorentz transformations I, Applications of the Lorentz transformation, The pole and barn paradox, Relativistic velocity addition formula, The twin paradox, Lorentz transformation II, The position 2 vector, 2 vectors, The velocity 2 vector, The energy momentum 2 vector, Binding energies and relativistic kinematics.
Author(s): Paul Renteln
81 Pages
Notes on Relativity and Cosmology
This book explains the following topics: Space, Time, and Newtonian Physics, Maxwell, E and M, and the Ether, Einstein and Inertial Frames, Minkowskian Geometry, Accelerating Reference Frames, Dynamics, Relativity and the Gravitational Field, General Relativity and Curved Spacetime, Black Hole, Cosmology.
Author(s): Donald Marolf
NA Pages
Theory of Special Relativity by Nadia L. Zakamska
This note covers the following topics: Principle of Relativity, Lorentz transform, Simultaneous events, causally connected events, Addition of velocities, 4-vectors: velocity, energy-momentum, Energy-momentum of photon, Doppler effect, aberration, Relativistic dynamics, Electromagnetic fields in different frames.
Author(s): Nadia L. Zakamska
101 Pages
General Relativity and Cosmology
This book explains the following topics: Frames of Reference, Newtonian Relativity, Einsteinian Relativity, Geometry of Flat Spacetime, Electrodynamics in Special Relativity.
Author(s): James Cresser
NA Pages
Einstein's theory of relativity
The reader is assumed to have but little mathematical knowledge. Topics covered includes: Geometry and Cosmology, The Fundamental Laws of Classical Mechanics, The Newtonian World-System, The Fundamental Laws of Optics, The Fundamental Laws of Electrodynamics and Einstein's Special Principle of Relativity.
Author(s): Max Born, Henry L. Brose
322 Pages
This a textbook on special relativity, aimed at undergraduates who have already completed a freshman survey course. The treatment of electromagnetism assumes previous exposure to Maxwell's equations in integral form, but no knowledge of vector calculus. Topics covered includes: Spacetime, Foundations, Kinematics, Dynamics, Inertia, Waves, Coordinates, Rotation, Flux and Electromagnetism.
Author(s): Benjamin Crowell
236 Pages
Lecture Notes on General Relativity
The aim of these lecture notes is to provide a reasonably self-contained introduction to General Relativity, including a variety of applications of the theory, ranging from the solar system to gravitational waves, black holes and cosmology. This book covers the following topics: Physics in a Gravitational Field and General Covariance, General Relativity and Geometry, Dynamics of the Gravitational Field, General Relativity and the Solar System, Black Holes, Cosmology, Varia, Kaluza-Klein Theory.
Author(s): Matthias Blau
938 Pages
Lecture Notes on General Relativity by Columbia University
This book covers the following topics: Special Relativity, Lorentzian Geometry, Introduction to General Relativity, Null Structure Equations, Applications to Null Hypersurfaces, Christodoulou’s Memory Effect, Black Holes, Lagrangian Theories and the Variational Principle, Hyperbolic Equations and Wave Propagation on Black Holes.
Author(s): Columbia University
139 Pages
The Adventure of Physics Vol. II Relativity
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and empty space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best of them in the domains of fast, intense and distant motion: relativity and cosmology.
Author(s): Christoph Schiller
356 Pages
Notes on Relativistic Dynamics [PDF]
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The General Relativity Tutorial
This note provides an informal introduction to that beautiful and amazingly accurate theory of gravity called general relativity. The goal is to explain the basic equation in this theory - Einstein's equation - with a minimum of fuss and muss.
Author(s): John Baez
NA Pages
Lecture Notes on General Relativity [Notes PS]
This note covers the following topics: Special relativity, Basic concepts of general relativity, Spherically symmetric spacetimes, Differential geometry and Variational principles.
Author(s): Petr Hadrava
NA Pages
Special Relativity David W. Hogg [PDF 53p]
This note covers the following topics: Principles of relativity, Time dilation and length contraction, Geometry of spacetime, The Lorentz transformation, Causality and the interval, Relativistic mechanics.
Author(s): David W. Hogg
53 Pages
Die spezielle Relativittstheorie (Notes on Special Relativity German PDF 118p)
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Lecture Notes on General Relativity [PDF 238]
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