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1 Principles of relativity
1.1 What is a principle of relativity? . . .
1.2 Einstein's principle of relativity . . . .
1.3 TheMichelson-Morley experiment . .
1.4 The \specialness" of special relativity
2 Time dilation and length contraction
2.1 Time dilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.2 Observing time dilation . . . . . . . .
2.3 Length contraction . . . . . . . . . . .
2.4 Magnitude of the e ects . . . . . . . .
2.5 Experimental con rmation. . . . . . .
3 The geometry of spacetime
3.1 Spacetime diagrams . . . . . . . . . .
3.2 Boosting: changing reference frames .
3.3 The \ladder and barn" paradox . . . .
3.4 Relativity of simultaneity . . . . . . .
3.5 The boost transformation . . . . . . .
3.6 Transforming space and time axes . .
4 The Lorentz transformation
4.1 Proper time and the invariant interval
4.2 Derivation of the Lorentz transformation
4.3 The Lorentz transformation . . . . . .
4.4 Velocity addition . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.5 The twin paradox . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 Causality and the interval
5.1 The ladder and barn revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2 Causality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.3 Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light . .
6 Relativistic mechanics
6.1 Scalars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2 4-vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.3 4-velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.4 4-momentum, rest mass and conservation laws . . .
6.5 Collisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.6 Photons and Compton scattering . . . . . . . . . . .
6.7 Mass transport by photons . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.8 Particle production and decay . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.9 Velocity addition (revisited) and the Doppler shift .
6.10 4-force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.1 Doppler shift (revisited) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.2 StellarAberration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.3 Superluminalmotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.4 Relativistic beaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.5 The appearance of passing objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.6 A simpleminded cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
