- Docente: Roberto Balbinot
- Credits: 6
- SSD: FIS/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physics (cod. 9244)
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from Feb 27, 2024 to May 31, 2024
Learning outcomes
The course introduces students to topics and tools of modern theoretical physics. At the end of the course, students will be able to deal with appropriate mathematical methods and apply theoretical models to the description of some among the most significative problems of physics
Course contents
1. Foundation of Special Relativity
2. Lorentz group
3. Minkowski space time
4. Tensor formalism
5. Rindler coordinates
6. Mandelstam variables
7. Electromagnetism, Lorentz force
8. Maxwell equations, gauge invariance
9. Electromagnetic waves
10. Green functions, retarded potentials
11. Energy momentum tensor
12. Perfect fluids
13. Relativistic field theory
Readings/Bibliography
V. Barone : Relatività. Bollati Boringhieri, 2004
J. D. Jackson classical Electrodynamics, Wiley, 1998
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Final oral examination
Office hours
See the website of Roberto Balbinot