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Albert Einstein. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.)
Bruce Knuteson
8.20
January IAP 2005
Undergraduate
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.
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.
Prof. Knuteson wishes to acknowledge that this course was originally designed and taught by Prof. Robert Jaffe.
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