Owing to popular demand, this week we'll cover relativity. This brings up two key points:
(1) Your next homework is out, and covers relativity. All problems are due this coming Friday.
(2) You'll want to read Ch. 1 of these notes, which cover relativity at the level we require. I'll try to have printed copies of that chapter for you tomorrow.
Monday's lecture should bring us all the way through time dilation and length contraction, while Wednesday's lecture will cover Lorentz transformations, spacetime diagrams, and energy & momentum.
Friday, we'll derive E from B and apply what we've learned to tie E&M together. For that, you should read section 6.1.2 in the notes linked above, which derives E from B for the special case of a point charge moving parallel to a current-carrying wire at constant velocity.
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