0 The idea of relativity and the role of symmetry in physics
0.1 The idea of relativity in the Greek and Latin cultures
0.2 The idea of relativity in Giordano Bruno’s Cena delle Ceneri
0.3 The idea of relativity in Galileo’s Dialogo
0.4 The transformations of Galileo
0.5 The problem of the aether
0.6 The experiment of Michelson-Morley
1 The principle of relativity
1.1 Propagation of the interactions
1.2 The invariant nterval
1.3 Proper time
1.4 Lorentz transformations
1.5 Tensor Calculus
1.5.1 Vectors
1.5.2 Tensors
1.6 Tensors and the Minkowski spacetime
1.7 Four-velocity and Four-acceleration
2 Relativistic Mechanics
2.1 Principle of least action
2.2 Energy and impulse
2.3 Kinematics of scattering and particle decays
2.3.1 Decays
2.3.2 Scattering
2.4 Particles in mechanics relativistic
3 Particle in an external electromagnetic field
3.1 Four-potentials
3.2 Equations of motion
3.3 Gauge invariance
3.4 Motion of a particle in the em field
3.4.1 Uniform constant electric field
3.4.2 Uniform constant magnetic field
3.5 Lorentz transformatin for the field
3.6 Invariants of the field
4 Dynamics of the electromagnetic field
4.1 The action for the field
4.2 Four-currents
4.3 Maxwell’s equations
4.4 Energy-momentum tensor in general
4.5 Application to the em field
5 Electromagnetic waves
5.1 Wave equation
5.2 General solution
5.3 Energy-imomentum of a plain wave
5.4 Doppler effect
5.5 Particular solutions of the wave equation
6 Electromagnetic Radiation
6.1 Retarded potential
6.2 Lienard and Wiechert’s potential
6.3 Lienard-Wiechert’s fields
6.4 Decomposition
6.5 Field in the wave zone
6.6 Radiation