Archive:Study Group For Relativity

Introduction

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

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. Jhouse 15:28, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Members

Discussion Group Members

• jhouse - Current Interests: General Relativity, tensors
• 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
  • Michelson-Morley experiment - overview discussion
  • Postulates of Relativity - overview discussion
  • Einstein's Gedanken Experiments - overview discussion
  • Concequences of Special Relativity - overview discussion
    • Simultaneity and Causality overview discussion
    • Lorentz Transformations - overview discussion
    • Mass and Energy - overview discussion
    • Space-Time Geometry - overview discussion
• General Relativity
  • Tensors - overview discussion

Tangent Modules

• Prediction & Implication of Antiparticles

Wikiversity:Study Group For Relativity:Proof of Antiparticles