Lecturer: Thore Posske
Lectures: Tuesdays, 4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m., Jungiusstr. 11, room A208
No lecture: Oct 21 (online material), Dec 24, Dec 31 (Christmas break)
Last lecture: Tue, Jan 27, 2026
General info about the course
Current version of this course's handwritten script
Script from previous lecture (Pfannkuche)
The students prepare
teaching units that evaluated as passed and not passed, see
List of projects/talks.
Each teaching unit lasts 20 (single) or 30 (team) minutes, and is discussed afterwards. Feel free to propose your own topics.
DEADLING FOR CHOOSING PROJECTS IS OCT 21.
| date | topic | who |
|---|---|---|
| Oct. 14 | Only lecture | |
| Oct. 21 | No lecture | |
| Oct. 28 | Only lecture | |
| Nov. 4 | inertial frames of reference and events | MP |
| Nov. 11 | Einstein's postulates | SBE and TJ |
| Nov. 18 | simultaneity | JF and EV |
| Nov. 25 | time dilation | CSR and BA |
| Dec. 2 | length contraction | LA and JW |
| Dec. 9 | Lorentz transformation | TS and JR |
| Dec. 16 | relativistic collision | LB and DL |
| Jan. 6 | E=mc2 | KN and AK |
| Jan. 13 | (1) Nuclear fission, (2) Nuclear fusion | (1) MS and FB (2) MN and SK |
| Jan. 20 | (1) Special relativity and GPS, (2) Twin paradox | (1) KW (2) KE and MS |
| Jan. 27 | Final discussions | |
Please send equations for the cheat sheet to Thore Posske. The final sheet can be downloaded here:
Cheat sheet - Formelsammlung
Vorlesung Mathematische Methoden der Physik, Teil Matrizenrechnung
Mathematischer Vorkurs, Teil Matrizenrechnung
Einsteins Originalartikel: Zur Elektrondynamik Bewegter Körper (2005)
Einsteins Buch "Über die Spezielle und Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie" (allgemeinverständlich) (Neuauflage 2009)
Book
Book recommendation for advanced reading SRT and GRT
(Meinel)
ETH Zürich SRT Lernwerkstatt: Vollständige Lernwerkstatt (Oberstufe) zur Speziellen Relativitätstheorie.
Einstein and simultanaeity clip
Das siehst du bei 99% Lichtgeschwindigkeit
Modulhandbuch Vorlesung La-Ba
Bildungspläne Hamburg
Bildungspläne Schleswig-Holstein