Astr 221 November 21, 2003: Metrics  

Examples

Timelike and Lightlike

Question: Under what Circumstances will the intervals be..

Spacelike

Special Relativity and metric

Lorentz Transformations

Where is the Rocket?

Lorentz transformation for time dilation

Time dilation and simultanaeity

Question: How long would an observer on the ground see muons survive for?

General Relativity

Question: What are geodesics on the two-dimensional curved spaces

Photon's path

Nothing can move faster than the speed of light

Principle of Equivalence

Atomic Clocks around the World

the Elevators

Motion of 2 objects

Equivalence principle for a horizontally traveling photon

Gravitational Fields and Equivalence

Gravitational redshift

Vertically traveling light

Gravitational time dilation