High School Introduction to Special Relativity

This course was originally much bigger, but revenue crashed after being added to UDEMY for business, so it was severely pruned and made free.

All deleted videos are available on my You Tube channel, ‘John Moylan’  look for the astronaut picture. 

(can’t include a link as UDEMY won’t allow).

The course starts starts with summaries covering the basic properties of gravity and gravitational fields, projectile motion and uniform circular motion, Kepler’s Laws, and Newtons Law of Universal Gravitation.

The majority of the course covers Special Relativity.  These lectures cover the historic understanding of the nature of light, and the development of the Theory of Special Relativity.  The lectures cover Length, Time, and Mass effects of relativistic speed, and how to calculate these, as well as the implications of Special Relativity for Space Travel.

There is little assumed knowledge, apart from a general familiarity with science and math, such as that provided by junior (years 7 to 10) high school.  This is a Senior High School Level course, it is an introduction to concepts such as gravity, projectile motion, orbital mechanics, how rockets work and relativity.

If you are considering putting up a course on UDEMY my advice is don’t do it.  Google classroom is much better 🙂