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Lecture Notes on Relativity by Juan A. Valiente Kroon
This note explains the following topics: Special relativity, Prelude to general relativity, Differential geometry and tensor calculus, Curvature and general relativity.
Author(s): Dr. Juan A. Valiente Kroon,University of London
80 Pages
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
General Relativity Lecture Notes by Ulrich Sperhake
The contents of this lecture notes are : Preliminaries, Differential geometry, Physical laws in curved spacetimes, The Schwarzschild solution and classic tests of GR, Cosmology, Singularities and geodesic incompleteness, Linearized theory and gravitational waves.
Author(s): Ulrich Sperhake
153 Pages
General Relativity by Chris Blake
This book discusses one of the crowning achievements of modern physics: the General Theory of Relativity (GR). Major topics covered includes: Special Relativity, Index Notation, Electromagnetism, Accelerated Motion, Equivalence Principle, Curved Space and Metrics, Geodesics, Tensors, Black Holes, Einstein Equation and Cosmology.
Author(s): Chris Blake
NA 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
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
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
Understanding Special Relativity
The purpose of this note is to introduce the theory of special relativity in an easily understandable way.Covered topics are: The 2 Postulates, The Relativity of Simultaneity, Length Contraction, Time Dilation, Lorentz Transformation, The Metric, The Twins Paradox, Moving faster than light?, Velocity Composition, Relativistic Dynamics and The 4-vector approach.
Author(s): Rafi Moor
NA Pages
Dynamics and Relativity by David Tong
This book covers the following topics: Newtonian Mechanics, Forces, Interlude: Dimensional Analysis, Central Forces, Systems of Particles, Non-Inertial Frames and Special Relativity.
Author(s): David Tong
167 Pages
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
Special Relativity and Geometry [PS]
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Relativity Tutorial [Ned Wright]
This note covers the following topics: Galilean Relativity, Special Relativity, Radar, Time Dilation, General Relativity, Principle of Equivalence, Curved Spacetime, Light cones in curved space-time.
Author(s): Edward L. Wright
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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 238p]
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