| Instructor: |
Seth Major, smajor, 4919, G064 |
| Office Hours: |
After each class, Thursdays 2:30 - 4:30 PM |
Lectures: |
MWF 10:00-10:50 AM Science Center G047 |
| Texts: |
Purcell and Morin, Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Edition |
Morin, Special Relativity for the enthusiastic beginner Chapter 1 (pdf) |
Reading in SR Ellis and Williams, Spacetime diagram intro (5.9 MB) |
News:
- PS 7 will be posted shortly and will be due April 11.
Course Info:
Problem Sets (pdf):
Extras:
Questions from SR classes.
Phet Electric Hockey!
A translation of "Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", Einstein's original 1905 paper on special relativity. Here's a pdf (1.9 MB) of the original article in German pubished in Annalen der Physik.
Class notes (from 2023): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (Thanks to Sophira for these!)
Last modified 31 March 2025
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