Introduction to Special Relativity

Week 2: Spacetime in Special Relativity

Lecture 4.1: Time Dilation

Lecture 4.2: Muons

Lecture 4.3: Length Contraction

Lecture 4.4: Invariance

Lecture 4.5: Lorentz Transformation

Lecture 5.1: Voyager Program

Lecture 5.2: Velocity Addition

Lecture 5.3: Spacetime Diagrams

Lecture 5.4: Regions in Spacetime Diagrams

Lecture 5.5: Causality

Lecture 6.1: Pole-in-the-Barn Paradox

Lecture 6.2: Twin Paradox

Lecture 6.3: Spacecraft-on-a-Rope Paradox

Lecture 7.1: Introduction to the Doppler Effect

Lecture 7.2: Relativistic Doppler Effect

Lecture 7.3: Redshift

Lecture 7.4: Galaxy Travel