Lecturer
Young Kenneth
Office: 211, Science Centre (North), Tel: 2609 6352, E-mail:
kyoung@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
Lecture and tutorial times and locations:
Date:
05
Jan, 12 Jan, 19 Jan, 26 Jan, 2 Feb and 16 Feb 2008
Time:
2:30 - 4:30 p.m. (Lecture)
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. (Tutorial)
Venue: L4, Science Centre, CUHK
Teaching Assistant
T.A. consultation hour is scheduled at 1:30-2:30 p.m. (before the class period
starts). Students please go to
L4, Science Centre (North) for seeking consultation. Appointment with lecturer may be arranged immediately after class, or by contacting personally:
Prof. Young Tel: 2609 6352, E-mail:
kyoung@phy.cuhk.edu.hk,
Office: 211, Science Centre
(North)
Your final grade will be determined as follows :
- Exam (50%)
- Assignments (30%)
- Attendance (20%)
Note: The suggested solutions
can
be downloaded from the programme web-page (www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/phytalent/relativity/). No mark will be given for late submissions.
Awards
Students with outstanding performance in this module will be granted an award.
Course content (Tentative)
- The principles and applications of special relativity:
The constancy of the velocity of light, Lorentz transformation, 4-vectors,
spacetime diagrams, paradoxes, addition of velocities and energy and momentum.
- K Young, Introduction to Relativity (This is a set of
lecture notes which will be distributed during the first class period.)
- B Russell, The ABC of Relativity (George Allen and
Unwin Ltd., London, 1958).
- M Gardner, Relativity for the Million (Pocket Books,
Inc., New York, 1965).
- R P Feynman, R B Leighton and M Sands, The Feynman
Lectures on Physics, Vol. I (Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1964).
- E F Taylor and J A Wheeler, Spacetime Physics (W H
Freeman and Co., San Franciso and London, 1966).
- C M Will, Was Einstein Right? (Oxford Unviersity
Press, Oxford, 1986).
