| Week | Topic of Discussion |
|---|
| 23 August | Introduction, Galilean Relativity | |
| 30 August | Postulates of Special Relativity | |
| 6 September | Labor Day, no class | |
| 13 September | Speed of Light, Michelson-Morley | |
| 20 September | Speed of Light Experiment | |
| 27 September | Frames of Reference | |
| 4 October | Relativity of Simultaneity | |
| 11 October | Time dilation, Length contraction | |
| 18 October | Invariance and Symmetry | |
| 25 October | Space-time diagrams | |
| 1 November | E=mc² | |
| 8 November | Special
Relativity in Particle Physics | |
| 15 November | Gravity and General Relativity | |
| 22 November | Space-time is Curved | |
| 29 November | Tests of Relativity | |
| 6 December | Summary | |