At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. First semester 2007-08.

A course on relativity

  1. BulletThe Syllabus and The Outline.


  1. BulletThe Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University.


  1. BulletThe manuscript notes of the course
    These notes are a personal draft. I scanned and put them here just to help you to check your own ones. They may not match exactly the content and the order of the classes.

  2. BulletGalilean Relativity: GR1, GR2, GR3, GR4

  3. BulletEinstein’s Special Relativity: ER1, ER2, ER3, ER4

  4. BulletEinstein’s General Relativity: GenR1

  5. BulletGeodesics: Geod1, Geod2, Geod3

  6. BulletMaths Notes: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5


  1. BulletReadings: Concepts

  2. BulletPhysics, Aristotle.

  3. Bulletמורה נבוכים, רמבם. החלק השני, פרק י"ג - פרק י"ד

  4. BulletConcepts of Space, Max Jammer.

  5. BulletConcepts of Simultaneity, Max Jammer.


  1. BulletReadings: Differential Geometry

  2. BulletDifferential Geometry..., Marcel Berger & Bernard Gostiaux.

  3. BulletTreatise on Analysis vol.III, Jean Dieudonné (as pdf).

  4. BulletAdvanced Calculus, Shlomo Sternberg.

  5. BulletCalcul LInéaire, Jean-Marie Souriau.


  1. BulletReadings: General Relativity

  2. BulletRelativity: The Special and the General Theory, Albert Einstein.

  3. BulletGéométrie et Relativité, J.-M. Souriau. Hermann, Paris 1964.

  4. BulletSemi Riemannian Geometry, S. Sternberg.

  5. BulletModèle de particule à spin..., J.-M. Souriau, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré, Paris 1974.

  6. BulletGeneral covariance and the passive equations of physics, S. Sternberg. Einstein Memorial Lecture Jerusalem 2006.


  1. BulletReadings: Mechanics

  2. BulletStructure of Dynamical systems, J.-M. Souriau.

  3. BulletSymplectic Techniques in Physics, Victor Guillemin & S. Sternberg

 

שנתון

יום ה' שפ' 24, 11:00

יום ב' פלדמן א, 16:00

Albert Einstein, who by the way took an active part to the foundation of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, changed dramatically our understanding of relations between motions, space, time and matter. This course will adopt a modern approach to relativity thanks to the special role of the symplectic structure existing on  the space of motions in mechanics.