This is my first online undergraduate free course on Theory of Relativity, specially designed for 1st year (25 batch) students at IISERB. I will hopefully upload these lectures to my YouTube channel, so that any curious student can avail its benefit. We will begin by 7th of May 2026 @11 AM for three days: Tue, Wed, & Thurs., per week.
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YouTube: [link]
References: Our curriculum for this course will mostly be based on MIT course 8.033 (undergraduate relativity) by Scott A. Hudges [link], on top of it, I will also refer to notes by Javier Rubio [link] with some interesting books:
Introduction to Special Relativity by Robert Resnick
Special Relativity by Benjamin Crowell
General Relativity for the Gifted Amateur by T. Lancaster & S.T. Blundell
Gravity, An introduction to Einstein’s General Relativity by J.B. Hartle.
Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity by Sean M. Carroll
Offline PPT class: History of Relativity [pdf] Assignment 1: [A-1]
Online classes:
Class 1: Introduction to Relativity [pdf] [video] Class 9: Vector Space [pdf] [video]
Class 2: Galilean Transformations [pdf] [video] Class 10: Dual Space [pdf] [video]
Class 3: Light is EM Wave [pdf] [video] Class 11: Summation Convention [pdf] [video]
Class 4: Michelson-Morley Experiment [pdf] [video]
Class 5: Lorentz Transformations [pdf] [video]
Class 6: Spacetime Interval [pdf] [video]
Class 7: A Light Cone [pdf] [video]
Class 8: Intro to Metric Space [pdf] [video]