Albert Einstein. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.)
Instructor(s)
Bruce Knuteson
MIT Course Number
8.20
As Taught In
January IAP 2005
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Highlights
This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.
Course Description
This course introduces the basic ideas and equations of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. If you have hoped to understand the physics of Lorentz contraction, time dilation, the "twin paradox", and E=mc2, you're in the right place.
Acknowledgements
Prof. Knuteson wishes to acknowledge that this course was originally designed and taught by Prof. Robert Jaffe.
