If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.


Isaac Newton

English mathematician & physicist (1642 - 1727)

 

FY504: Classical Mechanics

Francesco Sannino


Detailed Time Plan

August 2008


Notes

Special Relativity

Kepler’s Laws



Project

Is the Lorentz Contraction Observable?


Problems

Handout 1

Handout 2

Handout 3

Handout 4

Handout 5


Book

Knudsen and Hjorth, Elements of Newtonian Mechanics.


More advanced books

  1. 1.Goldstein

  2. 2.Landau

  3. 3.Arnold


Links

  1. http://www.spacetimetravel.org/

  2. Simultaneity on YouTube

  3. Time Dilation on YouTube