MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Science Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Relativity
Synopsis Tensor calculus in pseudo-Euclidean spaces. Lorentz transforms
and applications to kinematics, dynamics and optics. Lorentz covariant
matrices; world lines, proper time, 4-vectors for energy-momentum. Action
principles and variational methods. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations in
relativity. Generalisation to include accelerating frames. Metric and
Riemannian spaces. Eintstein's assumptions and their consequences.
Prescribed texts
- Landau L D and Lifshitz E M Classical theory of fields, revised edn,
Pergamon, 1982
- Nayfeh M H and Brussel M K Electricity and magnetism, Wiley,
1985
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