Pre-Quantum Electrodynamics
Relativistic Electrodynamicsred
Prerequisites
- Electrodynamics
Objectives
- Know the postulates of Special Relativity
- Understand time dilation and Lorentz contraction
- Know how to operate Lorentz transformations
- Know covariant and contravariant four-vectors and their scalar product
- Understand proper time and proper velocity
- Understand relativistic momentum and energy
- Know Newton's law (relativistic case) and the Minkowski force
- Understand how relativity relates electricity and magnetism
- Know how electromagnetic fields transform under a Lorentz transformation
- Know the field tensor and its dual
- Know Maxwell's equations in relativistic notation
In this section:
- Special Relativityred.sr
- Relativistic Mechanicsred.rm
- Relativistic Electromagnetismred.rem
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