Physics 139 Notes

Professor Smoot

• Einstein's Postulates
• The Speed of Light
• Michelson-Morely Experiment
• Time Dilation & ength Contraction or Length Contraction & Time Dilation
• Length Contraction & Time Dilation II
• Relativity Explained by Thought Experiments
• Aberration a good graphical display of classical and relativistic aberration
• Speed of Light as Limit (an alternate view?)
• Disxussion of Simultaneity
• Another disxussion of simultaneity
• Fast Young Lady Special Relativity poetry
• Visualization and Animation
• Gravitational Lens
• all below are place holders
• Dates of Importance in Electromagnetism
• Dates of Importance 1881-1932
• Olbers Paradox
• lecture notes