34737 - Mathematical Foundations of Physics

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Sandro Graffi
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: MAT/07
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mathematics (cod. 8208)

Course contents

I. Elements of special relativity and hyperbolic geometry of the Minkowski space.

II. Elements of kinetic theory of gases and of the statistical ensembles. Connection with thermodynamics and probability theory.

III. Elementary aspects of quantum theory: the Planck formula, the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rule, introduction to the Schroedinger equation. Connection with the the theory of linear operators in Hilbert space.

Readings/Bibliography

Notes sent to students by mail.

Assessment methods

The oral exam deals with  two subjects, one of them chosen by the student.

Office hours

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