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Mar 17, 2026
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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PHYS 275 - RelativityCommon Course
Michelson-Morley experiment, inertial reference frames, the principle of relativity, space-time coordinates of an event, Lorentz Transformations, clock paradox, momentum-energy 4-vector, equivalence of energy and rest mass, the principle of equivalence, curved space-time and qualitative features of general relativity and cosmology, relevance of relativity to space travel.
PreRequisite: PHYS 111 or PHYS 211 or PHYS 207
3 semester hours
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