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Concept of Newton's absolute space and absolute time, Limitations of the Newtonian world view, Gallilian transformations and their validity, The nature of light, Postulates of special theory of relativity, Mass energy equivalence, Lorentz-Einstein transformations and their physical realization, Concept of space-time continuum, Minkowski diagrams, Measurement of length and time intervals in relativity, Relativistic Doppler shift, Four vector notation, Matrix and tensor representations of relativistic transformations, Invariants under the relativistic transformation, Relativistic kinematics, Relativistic dynamics, Electromagnetic theory and relativity, Maxwell's equations in corvariant form, Charge conservation and four current density, Transformations of electromagnetic field, Lorentz invariance of the field equations, Invariance of electric charge, Motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field, Field due to a moving charge, Effect of gravity on space-time continuum, A general gravitational field, Riemannian space-time, Motion of a mass point in a gravitational field, Schwarzschild metric, Experimental test of Einestein's theory of gravitation.