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 | | Minkowski line element and proper time, four-velocity, four acceleration, four-wave vector, reproduction of all results in relativistic kinematics, four-momentum, four-force, four-angular momentum, reproduction of all results in relativistic kinetics, relativistic Lagrangian and Hamiltonian, invariant action, geodesic equation, relation between geometry and dynamics (notional). |
 | | four potential, covariance of Lorentz gauge condition, field-strength tensor, Maxwell's equations, gauge transformations, covariant form of Lorentz force equation, transformations of electric and magnetic fields, fields due to a point charge moving with uniform velocity, Biot-Savart law recovered. |
 | | Need to redefine momentum, relativistic mass and relativistic momentum, force, work and kinetic energy in relativity, relativistic principle of work, energy-momentum relation, relativistic acceleration, longitudinal and transverse mass, motion under a constant acceleration, Lorentz transformations for energy and momentum, mass-energy equivalence. |
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