Archive:Study Group For Relativity

2005-09-19T16:26:03Z

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== Introduction ==

This is an experimental course format and aims for a decentralized self-study course on Relativity. This page was started by me ([[User:jhouse|jhouse]]), but I am not an authority on this topic.

=== Help Request! (By [[User:Jhouse|Jhouse]] 15:24, 25 August 2005 (UTC)) ===
If you're checking this page out and wondering what's taking us so long, please go to [[Talk:Wikiversity#Math_support.3F]] and see if you can help us out. That's going to be a huge stumbling block for us if we don't figure out how to get around that.

=== Individual Responsibilities ===

There is no intention to recruit teachers to design a study plan, create/grade assignments, or provide insightful guidance. Instead this is intended to be a study group on the topic of Relativity. Regardless of how much you know coming into this, the hope is that study group memebers will take the following responsibilities:
* Ask questions about topics that you're currently interested in
* Provide your best guess as to the answer questions posted by others
* Point out how posted answers conflict with your current understanding

=== Goals of this Course ===

This is as much a relativity learning excercise as it is an exercise in learning how to do decentralized, self-organized courses online. Wikibooks and many other online sources can give you a self-teaching material, but that is not the goal here. This course aims to foster a collaborative working environment among the individual members. Any official reference material created by this course may be a mistake, but I anticipate much of it to reference other authorites on the topic(s) discussed. [[User:Jhouse|Jhouse]] 15:28, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

== Members ==

=== Discussion Group Members ===
* [[user:jhouse|jhouse]] - Current Interests: General Relativity, tensors
* [[user:gonzosm|Gonzo]] - Current Interests: Persuit of Physics PhD in fields related to General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, String & M-Theory, Synchronization.

=== Authorities Offering Help ===
(please include some kind of contact info)

== Discussion Pages ==
There are a number of course design issues that should be resolved before starting this section. Please click on the [[Talk:Wikiversity:Study_Group_For_Relativity|discussion tab at the top of this page]].

== Syllabus ==
This is still a work in progress. Edit it as you like (add detail, reorder, etc)
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* Special Relativity
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:overview
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:N/A
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</tr>
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:* Michelson-Morley experiment
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:[[wikipedia:Michelson-Morley experiment|overview]]
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:discussion
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</tr>
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:* Postulates of Relativity
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:[[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Postulates_of_Special_Relativity|overview]]
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:discussion
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</tr>
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:* Einstein's Gedanken Experiments
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:overview
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:discussion
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:* Concequences of Special Relativity
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:[[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Consequences_of_Special_Relativity|overview]]
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:N/A
</td>
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::* Simultaneity and Causality
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:[[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Simultaneity_and_Causality|overview]]
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:discussion
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::* Lorentz Transformations
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:[[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Lorentz_Transformation|overview]]
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:discussion
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::* Mass and Energy
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:[[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#Mass.2C_momentum.2C_and_energy|overview]]
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:discussion
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::* Space-Time Geometry
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:[[Wikiversity:Special_Relativity#The_Geometry_of_Space-time_in_Special_Relativity|overview]]
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:discussion
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* General Relativity
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<td>
:overview
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:N/A
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:* Tensors
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:overview
</td>
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:[[Wikiversity:General_Relativity:Tensors|discussion]]
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:* Tidal Forces and Basic Riemman Tensor Usage
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:overview
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:[[Wikiversity:General_Relativity:TidalForces|discussion]]
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</tr>
</table>

== Tangent Modules ==

*Prediction & Implication of Antiparticles
[[Wikiversity:Study Group For Relativity:Proof of Antiparticles]]

Archive:Study Group For Relativity

2005-08-10T21:19:00Z

192.160.51.71: Added Syllabus

== Introduction ==

This is an experimental course format and aims for a decentralized self-study course on Relativity. This page was started by me ([[User:jhouse|jhouse]]), but I am not an authority on this topic.

There is no intention to recruit teachers to design a study plan, create/grade assignments, or provide insightful guidance. Instead this is intended to be a study group on the topic of Relativity. Regardless of how much you know coming into this, the hope is that study group memebers will take the following responsibilities:
* Ask questions about topics that you're currently interested in
* Provide your best guess as to the answer questions posted by others
* Point out how posted answers conflict with your current understanding

== Members ==

Discussion Group Members
* [[user:jhouse|jhouse]] - Current Interests: General Relativity, tensors
* [[user:gonzalsm|Gonzo]] - Current Interests: General Relativity, tensors, M-Theory, Sychronization

Authorities Offering Help (please include some kind of contact info)

== Discussion Pages ==
There are a number of course design issues that should be resolved before starting this section. Please click on the [[Talk:Wikiversity:Study_Group_For_Relativity|discussion tab at the top of this page]].

== Syllabus ==
This is still a work in progress. Edit it as you like (add detail, reorder, etc)
* Special Relativity
** Lorentz Transformations
* General Relativity
** Tensors

== Tangent Modules ==

*Prediction & Implication of Antiparticles
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Study_Group_For_Relativity:Proof_of_Antiparticles

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