8.20 | January IAP 2021 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Special Relativity

Week 1: Foundations of Special Relativity

Lecture 2.1: Events

Description: We define the principle of relativity in this section and make a difference between events and frames used to describe them. (03:32)

Instructor: Prof. Markus Klute

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