Special Relativity
Get up to (light) speed on Einstein's theory of relativity.
18 LessonsMade in collaboration with
Reference Frames and Observers
Spacetime and Paradoxes
Course description
This course was written in collaboration with Aaron Miller, a PhD in physics from Penn State University, and was integrated into a YouTube video series on MinutePhysics.
Beginning with famous thought experiments and a few intuitive principles from Newtonian mechanics, this course closely follows Einstein's arguments leading to the epiphany that time and space are a single entity, spacetime, where physical processes unfold.
Topics covered
- 4-vectors
- Lorentz Transformations
- Mass-energy Equivalence
- Spacetime Paradoxes
- Particle Physics
- Reference Frames
- Spacetime Curvature
- Spacetime Diagrams
- Spacetime Intervals
- Time Dilation