- 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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