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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 8.2 (January (IAP) 2005) 
  • Course Title:
  • Introduction to Special Relativity 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Physics 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Bruce Knuteson 
  • Course Introduction:
  •  


  • 8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity



    January (IAP) 2005




    Course Highlights


    This course features readings, assignments, and exams. This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.


    Course Description


    This course introduces the basic ideas and equations of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. 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.


    Acknowledgements


    Prof. Knuteson wishes to acknowledge that this course was originally designed and taught by Prof. Robert Jaffe.

     

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