The Metric of Flat Spacetime: Introducing the Minkowski Metric @FacultyofKhan
The Metric of Flat Spacetime: Introducing the Minkowski Metric  @FacultyofKhan
Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Introduction and development of the Minkowski metric, using basic principles of dot products and the definition of the spacetime interval that we've discussed in previous videos on Special Relativity.

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Pre-reqs: basic Linear Algebra (matrix multiplication, what a dot product is) and previous videos in this playlist - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdgVBOaXkb9CkdpdSWT9oPDSvQ8BjjNTq
Lecture Notes: drive.google.com/file/d/1HOIkYBfJWDj-9nVDO1INLVDcii-Cv4gN/view?usp=drive_link

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