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Special Relativity (Fall 2020)
General: ( This webpage is updated gradually) - Last Update 13 February 2021
This is a B.Sc. course, which will be held in Physics Department of Sharif University of Technology.
Class Time: Saturdays and Mondays 16:30 - 18:00
Place: These lecture will be taught and discussed in vclass
Office Hours: by appointment - Email: baghram@sharif.edu due to Covid19 pandemic era, we can discuss in vclass
Registered students: # 37
About the Course:
This is an introductory course on Special Relativity. The aim is to understand one of the greatest scientific achievements in humankind history, understand the structure of space and time when gravity is absent.
Teacher Assitants:
Miss Saba Etezadrazavi Email address: s_etezadrazavi@yahoo.com
Miss Zahra Kabiri Email address: kabiri.zahra98@gmail.com
Mr. Kuroush Alameh Email address: kuroshallame@gmail.com
TA Class Group 1: TBA
TA Class Group 2: TBA
TA Class Group 3: TBA
Grading:
Mid-term 1 : 5 points YOU CAN SEE THE RESULTS HERE. Monday - 12 Aban 1399 - 2 November 2020 @ 16:30 - 18:00
Mid-term 2: 5 points YOU CAN SEE THE RESULTS HERE.
MID TERM II - 24 Azar 1399 + TAKE HOME
Assignments: 5 points YOU CAN SEE THE RESULTS HERE
Projects, Class Activity, TA Classes: 1.0 point Presentation date: (Must be a very high quality project)
PROJECTS (TERM PAPER-OPTIONAL) : DUE TO FRIDAY 14 BAHMAN 1399 / 2 February 2021
Presentation Day:
Final Exam: 5 points YOU CAN SEE THE RESULTS HERE. Tuesday 30 Day 1399 - @ 15:00
Total grade: from 21.0 YOU CAN SEE THE TOTAL GRADING HERE
Suggested Reading:
Main guidline: Class Lecture Notes
& Relativity: Special general and Cosmology: Wolfgang Rindler 2006
Classical Electrodynamics, J.D. Jackson, 1999 third edition Chapter 11.6 and 11.7
Nonlocal Gravity by Bahram Mashhoon (2017) - Oxford University Press
David Tong: Lectures on Quantum Field Theory - Cambridge University
نسبیت خاص- شهرام خسروی و رضا منصوری انتشارات دانشگاه صنعتی شریف 1389
Introduction to Classical Mechanics: David Morin Cambridge University Press 2008
Basic Relativity, R.A. Mould, 1994, chapter 1,2,3
Special Relativity: An Introduction with 200 Problems and Solutions: Michael Tsamparlis, springer 2010
Special Relativity, David W. Hoggs, 1997, whole lecture
Special Relativity : A. P. French 1968
Spacetime and Geometry: Introduction to General Relativity, Sean Carroll, Addison Wesley 2004 Chapter 1 -2
Introducing Einstein's Relativity, Ray d'Inverno, Oxford University Press- Chapter 5
Classical Mechanics: Goldstein, Poole and Safko, Addison Wesley 2002 Chapter 7
Gravitation: Foundation and Frontiers T.Padmanabhan, Cambridge University Press: 2010 Chapter 1
For Classical Field Theory and Special Relativity you can refer to:
1) A modern introduction to quantum field theory by Michele Maggiore Oxford University Press - 2005
2) An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Daniel V. Schroeder and Michael Peskin (1995)
** For Mathematical basis of Tensors calculus
1) Mathematical Physics: A Modern Introduction to Its Foundations by Sadri Hassani (1999)
2) The Geometry of Physics by Theodore Frankel (1997)
Lecture Notes
Introduction to Tensor Calculus by Kees Dullemond & Kasper Peeters
Lecture Notes on Electrodynamic and Special Relativity by David Tong
Main Topics of Course:
1- Historical perspective on the concept of space-time, Newtonian Gravity and Galilean Relativity
2- EM wave - light and Ether
3- Axioms of Special Relativity, the hypothesis of calibration and measurement, Lorentz transformations, space-time diagrams, length contraction, and time dilation
4- Minkowski Space-time diagrams, Minkowski metrics, SR paradoxes
5- SR Kinematicks - relative velocities, ...
6- Special Relativity and Optics
7- Tensor calculus I, the concept of four vectors
8- Acceleration in SR, concept of force and work
9- SR Dynamics, four-momentums, scattering and conservations.
10- Relativistic Electrodynamics
11- Relativistic classical field theory (conservations, Noether theorem and ...)
12-Tensor calculus II, manifolds
13- Thomas Precision in electrodynamics
14- Overview on General Relativity
Lectrure Notes and Presentations:
TensorAnalysis-I by Mr. Kuroush Allameh
Recorded Videos - Brief review of sessions:
1- Session 1
2- Session 2
3- Session 3
4- Session 4
5- Session 5
6- Session 6
7- Session 7
8- Session 8
9- Session 9
10- Session 10
11- Session 11
12- Session 12
13- Midterm I
14- Session 14
15- Session 15
16- Session 16
17 - Session 17
18 - Session 18
Time Line of Lectures:
Lecture 1: ( Saturday - 29 Shahrivar 1399 - 19 September 2020)
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 1
Lecture 2: ( Monday - 31 Shahrivar 1399 - 21 September 2020)
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 2
Lecture 3: (Saturday - 5 Mehr 1399 - 26 September 2020)
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 3
Lecture 4: ( Monday - 7 Mehr 1399 - 28 September 2020)
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 4
Lecture 5 : ( Saturday - 12 Mehr 1399 - 3 October 2020 )
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 5
Lecture 6 : ( Monday - 14 Mehr 1399 - 5 October 2020 )
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 6
Lecture 7 : ( Saturday - 19 Mehr 1399 - 10 October 2020)
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 7
Lecture 8 : ( Monday - 21 Mehr 1399 - 12 October 2020 )
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 8
Saturday - 23 Mehr 1399 / 17 October 2020 - official holiday.
Lecture 9 : (Monday - 28 Mehr 1399 - 19 October 2020)
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 9
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 10
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 11
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 12
MIDTERM EXAM I
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 14
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 15
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 16
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 17
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 18
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 19
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 20
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 21
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 22
The brief review of the lecture can be find here Session 23
Classical Field theory and special relativity
MIDTERM EXAM II
Classical Field theory and special relativity
Classical Field theory and special relativity
Non-Local Special Relativity I