Unit name | Relativistic Field Theory |
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Unit code | PHYSM3417 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Antognozzi |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
PHYS30030 Core Physics 303 or the equivalent taken as part of a Year in industry or year in Europe and either PHYS38014 Methods of Theoretical Physics or MATH31910 |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Physics |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
Aims: Special Relativity was originally proposed to account for the properties of Electromagnetic fields, and the notions of classical fields are closely related to relativity. This course will give an account of the modern approach to special relativity and Lagrangian field theory, and their role in the covariant description of the classical electromagnetic field, and the relativistic quantum Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations. The course is a mixture of calculation combined with more qualitative treatment of advanced topics.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
Lectures and associated problem classes and practice question sheets.
Formative assessment is through problem sheets discussed in problems classes. Summative assessment is through a 2 hour written examination (100%)
The Classical Theory of Fields, Landau & Lifshitz (Course on Theoretical Physics, volume 2) Appropriate parts of the Feynman Lectures Advanced Quantum Mechanics (Sakurai) The Quantum Theory of Fields, Weinberg (volume 1) Quantum Field Theory, Kaku