FU:ERFYB0002 Special Relativity - Course Information
ERFYB0002 Special Relativity
Institute of physics in Opavawinter 2024
- 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 - Timetable
- Mon 11:25–13:00 F2, Fri 11:25–12:10 F2
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- 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)
- Information on course enrolment limitations: Erasmus
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
- Permalink: https://is.slu.cz/course/fu/winter2024/ERFYB0002