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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2436yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Introduction
  • Principles of Relativity
  • Speed of Light
  • Postulates
  • Light Clock
  • Time Dilation
  • 4-Step Reasoning
  • Twin Paradox
  • Physical Picture
  • Interferometers (* optional video) 
  • Ether (* optional video)
  • Speed of Light from Maxwell (* optional video)
  • Units (* optional video)
  • Weekly Summary
Practice Exercise
  • I - 1

Videos
  • Introduction
  • Length Contraction
  • Length in 4-Step Reasoning (* optional video)
  • Velocity Addition: First Look (* optional video)
  • Terrell Rotation (* optional video)
  • Device for "Same Time"
  • Spacetime Diagram
  • Relativity of Same Time
  • Twin Paradox Revisited (* optional video)
  • Causality
  • No Perfect Rigid Body
  • Ladder Paradox
  • Lorentz Transform, Space Part
  • Lorentz Transform, Time Part
  • Effects From Lorentz Transform
  • Velocity Addition
  • Summary
Practice Exercise
  • I - 2

Videos
  • Introduction
  • Geometry
  • Lorentzian and Euclidean
  • Invariant Interval
  • Conserved Quantities
  • Newtonian Momentum
  • Momentum
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Mass Conservation?
  • Energy
  • 4D Vectors
  • Doppler Effect (* optional video)
  • Spacetime Metric (* optional video)
  • Natural Units (* optional video)
  • Summary
Practice Exercise
  • I - 3

Videos
  • Introduction
  • Why gravity is related to inertia?
  • Equivalence Principle
  • Time Dilation
  • Schwarzschild Metric
  • Light Bending
  • Gravitational Lensing
  • Black Holes
  • Journey of Falling in
  • Are Black Holes Black?
  • Gravitational Waves
  • Summary
Practice Exercise
  • I - 4

Videos
  • Olber's Paradox
  • The Observable Universe
  • Cosmological Principle
  • Friedmann Equation
  • Hubble Law
  • Continuity Equation
  • Matter Content
  • Origins and Summary
Practice Exercise
  • I - 5

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