Govind Menon
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 Fall 2025
PHY 5560: Relativity I : M, W, F, Room 318 MSCX, 1:00-1:50 p.m.
Topics: Lorentz transformation, inertial coordinates, causal structure of spacetime, equivalence principle, gravitational effects in special relativity, curved spacetime, and introduction to black holes.
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Lecture notes for Relativity I videos can be found here.


PHY 4460/5560, Relativity I: Video Lectures

  • Lecture 1.1, Lorentz Transformation
  • Lecture 1.2, Spacetime Diagrams
  • Lecture 2.1, The Rotation Group
  • Lecture 2.2, Inertial Observers
  • Lecture 2.3, Minkowski Inner Product
  • Lecture 2.4, Lorentz Group 1