PHYS 225 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Required Materials

Web Information

This course uses the Web extensively. Internet access and a web browser are required for:

• discussion problems
• the gradebook
• homework exercise download and submission in Gradescope

Computers with appropriate web browsers are available in Technology Services, Engineering Work Stations and housing division computer labs.

Required Materials

Textbook

• Special Relativity for the Enthusiastic Beginner, D. Morin. Available as a Kindle e-book on Amazon or in the Illini Union bookstore as a paperback.

For Lecture

• you should be able to use your phone/tablet to access course materials
• no iClickers required

For Discussion

• Your laptop or tablet
• A calculator with trigonometric functions.
• Paper and pens or pencils.

Optional

• Basic Training in Mathematics, R. Shankar, Plenum (available in the Illini Union bookstore)
• 3Blue1Brown - 3Blue1Brown animated math - linear algebra, group theory -- visualized
• Mathematics for physics: a guided tour for graduate students, Michael Stone, Paul M. Goldbart. Available in Illinois University Library.
• The classical theory of fields, L. Landau,  E. Lifshits, Oxford; New York: Pergamon Press; 1975. Available in Illinois University Library.
• English translation of Einstein's 1905 relativity paper