PHY 313 Introduction to Special Relativity

300 levelSciences10 topics

PHY 313 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

Galilean relativity and inertial frames
The Michelson-Morley experiment
Einstein's postulates of special relativity
Lorentz transformations
Time dilation
Length contraction
Relativistic addition of velocities
Relativistic momentum and energy
Mass-energy equivalence
Four-vectors and spacetime diagrams

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Galilean relativity and inertial frames

Galilean relativity explains how the laws of mechanics appear in frames moving at constant velocity relative to one another, while inertial frames are the special reference frames in which Newton’s first law holds.

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