PHY 360 - Week 2

Monday
Relativity of time (time dilation)
Relativity of lengths (length contraction)
The Twin Paradox

Wednesday
The relativistic Doppler Shift
The Lorentz Transformations of coordinates

Friday
Problems and Homework

Homework (to be returned in class on Friday 1/28)

Problems 1.33 (note, answer first question b, then question a), 1.5, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14