Relativity - Special & General

Prerequisites:
Basic mathematical physics
Mechanics

Key Lectures

Tutorial

Supplementary Videos

Supplementary Articles

Key Lectures

Special Theory of Relativity Lecture series by Prof. Leonard Susskind from Stanford University. There are 10 lectures in this series. [Full Playlist]

General Theory of Relativity Lecture Series by Prof. Leonard Susskind from Stanford University. There are 10 lectures in this series. It is an advanced topic, however, explained starting from a very elementary level. [Full Playlist]

General Relativity Lecture Series by Prof. T Padmanabhan who is a distinguished Professor at the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) at Pune. This lecture contains 19 lectures. This lecture series is useful for advanced learning who are specializing in the topic.

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Supplementary Videos

Fermilab Videos by Dr. Don Lincoln 

• What is Relativity all about? 
• Einstein’s clock 
• What do you never learn about Mass 
• Is Relativistic mass real? 
• The origin of Mass 
• Relativity’s key concept: Lorentz Gamma 
• How to travel faster than light? 
• Relativistic velocity when 1+1=1 
• Length contraction: real explanation 
• Relativity: how people get time dilation wrong 
• Twin paradox: the real explanation (no math) 
• Twin paradox: the real explanation 
• The real meaning of E=mc2 
• How to understand the black hole image?
• GPS, How does it work?  

Supplementary Science Education Articles

1. The Experiment of Michelson and Morley: Experiment That Ruled Out Ether, Resonance 22, 633, 2017 
2. How Einstein Discovered the Special Theory of Relativity, Resonance 11, 27, 2006 
3. General Relativity and the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe, Resonance 17, 252, 2012 
4. General Theory of Relativity – The Power of Speculative Thought, Resonance, 11, 45, 2006 
5. Seeing is Believing: First Image of a Supermassive Black Hole, Resonance 24, 523, 2019
6. GTR Component of Planetary Precession, Resonance 22, 577, 2017 (This article retraces some of the major milestones that led to the General Theory of Relativity (GTR) and presents a simple numerical simulation of the GTR advance of the perihelion of planetary motion about the sun.)

7. Einstein’s Miraculous Year, Resonance 10, 35, 2005 

8. Gravitational-Wave Astronomy – A New Window to the Universe, Resonance 16, 922, 2011
9. Gravitational Waves – A New Astrnomical Tool, Resonance 21, 213, 2016 
10. Motion of Charged Particles in Electromagnetic Fields and Special Theory of Relativity, Resonance 9, 77, 2004