8.033 | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Relativity and Spacetime Physics

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8.033 (F24): Full Lecture Notes: Introduction to Relativity and Spacetime Physics
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 01: Introduction; Newtonian Mechanics and Relativity
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 02: Electromagnetic Radiation and Galilean Relativity
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 03: From Galilean Relativity to …?
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 04: Spacetime, Simultaneity, and the Consequences of Lorentz
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 05: Introduction to 4-Vectors
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 06: Kinematics in Spacetime
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 07: 4-Momentum and 4-Velocity
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 08: Using 4-Momentum
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 09: Some More Math: The Metric Tensor, 1-Forms AKA Dual Vectors, Tensors More Generally
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 10: Describing Matter in Bulk
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 11: A Covariant Formulation of Electrodynamics (Part I)
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 12: A Covariant Formulation of Electrodynamics (Part II)
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 13: Accelerations and Forces
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 14: Prelude to Gravity: More on the Uniformly Accelerated Observer
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 15: Introduction to Gravity
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 16: The Calculus of Variations, The Principle of Maximum Aging, and the Motion of Bodies in Spacetime
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 17: Goodbye Global Lorentz Frames, Hello Principle of Equivalence; Initial Considerations of Relativistic Gravity
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 18: Some Important Solutions of the Einstein Field Equation; Using Those Solutions
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 19: From Weak Gravity to Strong Gravity
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 20: Exploring Strong Gravity
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 21: Data on Strong Gravity
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8.033 (F24): Lecture 22: Our Universe at Large

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