University of Rome "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Fisica, Corso di Fisica Teorico (Ruffini)
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A short guest course on special relativity, with a brief introduction and working some problems from the first edition of Taylor and Wheeler, but the second edition has been totally reorganized into essentially a completely new book and some problems dropped:
Some problems have familiar names. We give the exercise numbers from the first edition and when retained, in the second edition.
| Topic | 1st Edition | 2nd Edition | page |
| Introduction | --- | --- | 1 |
| Einstein's train paradox | 23 | 6-8? | 4 |
| Pole and barn paradox | 25 | 5-4 | 5 |
| Transformation of velocities | 20, 21 | L-7,8 | 6 |
| Tilted meter stick | 52 | L-10 | 7 |
| Lorentz contraction II | 13 | L-14 | 8 |
| Time dilation | 13 | 8 | |
| Clock paradox | 27 | L-13 | 8 |
| Space war | 26 | 3-7 | 9 |
| Thin man and the grid (2: skateboard and grid) | 54 | L-12 | 10 |