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Special relativity
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Anno accademico 2008/2009
- Codice dell'attività didattica
- F8066
- Docente
- Prof. Jeanette Ethel Nelson (Titolare del corso)
- Corso di studi
- c303 laurea 1° liv. in fisica
- Anno
- 3° anno
- Tipologia
- Altre attività
- Crediti/Valenza
- 3
- SSD dell'attività didattica
- FIS/02 - fisica teorica, modelli e metodi matematici
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Sommario insegnamento
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Programma
This course is taught entirely in english by a native speaker. The aim of the course is to give an introduction to the most important arguments of the theory of Einstein whilst providing practice in the use of the english language.
It is suitable for third year or good second year students who have reasonable understanding of the english language.
Students may ask questions in either english or italian, though the replies will be in english.
The duration of the course is 24 hours, twelve lessons, two hours each, starting 14 April 2008, dates to be determined. Lectures are held at Physics, via Pietro Giuria 1, in Aula G, from 5.30pm to 7.30pm.
The course programme is as follows.
Historical Introduction
Lorentz Transformations and their physical consequences
Tensors, spinors and the Lorentz group
Energy and Momentum
Maxwell's equations
The Klein-Gordon and Schrodinger equations
For further information please contact the Course LecturerExaminations
The examinations consist of one two hour written and one oral examination, in June and September 2008. The questions in both will be in english, but students may respond in english or in italian.
Previous exams
Adequate replies in english to BOTH the written and oral examination implies a further 3 credits (F 8074 ulteriori conoscenze linguistiche).
(Note: Il numero massimo di crediti convalidabili come ulteriori conoscenze linguistiche ed informatiche è 6)Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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- Course books- there are many, but I recommend
Weinberg "Gravitation and Cosmology" Part OneLandau and Lifschitz "Course of Theoretical Physics" Volume 2-Classical Theory of Fields, chapters 1-4
Rindler "Special Relativity" chapters I-VI and the Appendix.
Penrose and Rindler "Spinors and space time"
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Note
The examinations consist of one two hour written and one oral examination. The questions in both will be in english, but students may respond in english or in italian. Dates for 2005 are 30 June (written), 7 July (oral) and 1 September (written), 7 September (oral).Adequate replies in english to BOTH the written and oral examination implies a further 3 credits (F 8074 ulteriori conoscenze linguistiche).
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