FU:ERFYB0007 Special Relativity - Course Information

ERFYB0007 Special Relativity

Extent and Intensity

3/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

M.Sc. Daniela Pugliese, Ph.D. (lecturer)
M.Sc. Daniela Pugliese, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

M.Sc. Daniela Pugliese, Ph.D.
Institute of physics in Opava

Prerequisites (in Czech)

(FAKULTA(FU)&&SOUHLAS)

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

1. Summary of Galilean relativity 2. Postulates of the special theory of relativity 3. Lorentz transformation and its consequences 4. Minkowski spacetime 5. Tensor formalism 6. Relativistic mechanics 7. Relativistic electrodynamics, four-vector of the current density, four-potential, tensor of the electromagnetic field. Notation of Maxwell's equations in covariant form. 8. Electric field of moving charges 9. Classical field theory, scalar field, Klein-Gordon equation, charged scalar fields, Proca fields, Dirac fields.

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Erasmus

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