- Docente: Roberto Balbinot
- Credits: 6
- SSD: FIS/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics (cod. 8025)
Learning outcomes
The purpose of the course is to give students a detailed knowledge of Special Relativity, with applications to relativistic kinematical effects, relativistic dynamics, electromagnetism.
Course contents
1. Review of the physical bases of Special Relativity
2. Lorentz transformation, kinematical effects
3. Minkowski space-time
4. Tensors
5. Point particle dynamics
6. Elastic and anelastic collisions
7. Electromagnetism, Lorentz force
8. Maxwell equations, gauge invariance
9. Electromagnetic waves
10. Green's functions, retarded potential
Readings/Bibliography
R. Resnick : Introduction to Special Relativity, John Wiley & Sons, 1968
W. Rindler :Introduction to Special relativity,Oxford university Press , 1991
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Office hours
See the website of Roberto Balbinot