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Physics 311A, Fall
Special Relativity
Special Relativity
Instructor: Boris Blinov
Email: blinov (at) u.washington.edu
Office: PAB B436
Office Hours: Tue. 9:30-11:30 am
Telephone: 221-3780
Lecture plan
Date | Topic | "Spacetime Physics"chapters ("Black holes" chapters) | |
| W | Sep. 26 | 1.1 - 1.3, 3.1 | |
| F | Sep. 28 | 1.4 - 1.5, 2.1 - 2.3 | |
| M | Oct. 1 | 2.4 - 2.9 | |
| W | Oct. 3 | 3.2 - 3.6 | |
| F | Oct. 5 | Measurement - TUTORIAL | |
| M | Oct. 8 | Intervals. Lorentz transformations. PDF PPT | 3.7 - 3.9, L.1 - L.6 |
| W | Oct. 10 | Addition of velocities. 4-velocity. PDF PPT pretest | L.7 |
| F | Oct. 12 | Simultaneity - TUTORIAL | |
| M | Oct. 15 | Twin paradox PDF PPT | 4.1 - 4.6 |
| W | Oct. 17 | Time travel. Relativity of simultaniety PDF PPT | 4.7 - 4.9 |
| F | Oct. 19 | Synchronization and causality - TUTORIAL | |
| M | Oct. 22 | Worldline. Light cone. PDF PPT | 5.1 - 5.6, 6.1 - 6.3 |
| W | Oct. 24 | Midterm #1 (solutions PDF) | |
| F | Oct. 26 | Regions of spacetime - TUTORIAL | |
| M | Oct. 29 | Energy-momentum PDF PPT | 7.1 - 7.5 |
| W | Oct. 31 | Mass and energy. Inelastic collisions. PDF PPT | 8.1 - 8.3 |
| F | Nov. 2 | Conservation of energy-momentum - TUTORIAL | 7.6 |
| M | Nov. 5 | Photons, particles without mass PDF PPT | 8.4 - 8.5 |
| W | Nov. 7 | Fusion and fission. Annihilation. PDF PPT | 8.6 - 8.8 |
| F | Nov. 9 | Gravity: Galileo, Newton, Einstein PDF PPT (24 Megs !!!) | 9.1 - 9.3 |
| M | Nov. 12 | NO CLASS - Veteran's day | |
| W | Nov. 14 | Metric and curved space PDF PPT | 9.4 - 9.5 |
| F | Nov. 16 | Equivalence principle PDF PPT | |
| M | Nov. 19 | Midterm #2 (solutions PDF) | |
| W | Nov. 21 | Geodesics, tidal accelerations and gravitational waves. PDF PPT | 9.6 - 9.7 |
| F | Nov. 23 | NO CLASS - Thanksgiving holiday | |
| M | Nov. 26 | Black holes. The Universe. PDF PPT Summary of "Exploring Black Holes"Chapter 2. | 9.8 - 9.9 |
| W | Nov. 28 | Spinning black holes | (F 1-7) |
| F | Nov. 30 | Schwarzschild metric - TUTORIAL | |
| M | Dec. 3 | Dark matter and dark energy PDF PPT | |
| W | Dec. 5 | Hot topics in General Relativity PDF PPT(65 megs!!!) | |
| F | Dec. 7 | Geodesics - TUTORIAL | |
| M | Dec. 10 | Final exam 2:30 - 4:20 p.m. |