Lecturer: Thore Posske
Lectures: Tuesdays, 4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m., Jungiusstr. 11, room A208
No lecture: Oct 21 (online material), Dec 24, Dec 31 (Christmas break)
Last lecture: Fri, July 12.
Current version of this course's handwritten script
Script from previous lecture (Pfannkuche)
The students prepare
teaching units that evaluated as passed and not passed, see
List of projects/talks.
Each teaching unit lasts 20 (single) or 30 (team) minutes, and is discussed afterwards. Feel free to propose your own topics.
| date | topic | who |
|---|---|---|
| Oct. 14 | Only lecture | |
| Oct. 21 | No lecture | |
| Oct. 28 | Only lecture | |
| Nov. 4 | inertial frames of reference and events | MP |
| Nov. 11 | Einstein's postulates | |
| Nov. 18 | simultaneity | |
| Nov. 25 | time dilation | CSR and BA |
| Dec. 2 | length contraction | |
| Dec. 9 | Lorentz transformation | TS and JR |
| Dec. 16 | relativistic collision | |
| Jan. 6 | E=mc2 | |
| Jan. 13 | (1) Nuclear fission, (2) Nuclear fusion | |
| Jan. 20 | Special relativity and GPS | |
| Jan. 27 | Final discussions | |
Please send equations for the cheat sheet to Thore Posske. The final sheet can be downloaded here:
Cheat sheet - Formelsammlung
Vorlesung Mathematische Methoden der Physik, Teil Matrizenrechnung
Mathematischer Vorkurs, Teil Matrizenrechnung
Einsteins Originalartikel: Zur Elektrondynamik Bewegter Körper (2005)
Einsteins Buch "Über die Spezielle und Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie" (allgemeinverständlich) (Neuauflage 2009)
Book
Book recommendation for advanced reading SRT and GRT
(Meinel)
ETH Zürich SRT Lernwerkstatt: Vollständige Lernwerkstatt (Oberstufe) zur Speziellen Relativitätstheorie.
Einstein and simultanaeity clip
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