Lecture Notes on Special Relativity
by J D Cresser
Publisher: Macquarie University 2005
Number of pages: 70
Description:
Special relativity lecture notes. From the table of contents: Introduction: What is Relativity?; Frames of Reference; Newtonian Relativity; Einsteinian Relativity;Geometry of Flat Spacetime; Electrodynamics in Special Relativity.
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