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Introduction and parable of the surveyors

First, we need to go over the structure of this course.

The "big" topics this course will cover are

  1. why is relativity necessary?
  2. spacetime events
  3. invariant quantities
  4. transforming between different observers
  5. relativistic definitions of energy and momentum
  6. consequences of mass-energy

To get a feeling for the path that we will follow, consider the parable of the surveyors.

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