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| PHYS 30400 - Relativity I |
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Credit hours: 3.00. An introduction to the theory of Special Relativity. Topics include historical justification; axioms of relativity; Lorentz transformations as applied to position, velocity, and acceleration; time dilation, length contraction, and associated paradoxes; relativistic optics, relativistic particle and electro-dynamics.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the postulates of special relativity and their effects, such as length contraction, time dilation, transformations, and invariants. 2. Calculate specific changes in various physical laws due to the effects of special relativity. 3. Manipulate tensors associated with electrodynamics. |
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