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PHYS-F202

Relativité, électromagnétisme et optique ondulatoire

academic year
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Petr TINIAKOV (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

10

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

Special Relativity and fundamental Electromagnetism in the relativistic framework. Emphasis on the mathematical physics methods that are common to all fields of Physics: tensors, symmetry groups, conserved quantities, expansions of functions in basis of orthogonal polynomials in functional spaces, solution of partial derivative equations by variables separation.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

The objective is to give the student a general formation in Special Relativity and Electromagnetism along with an introduction to several mathematical tools that are common to all fields of Physics. After this course, the student should be prepared to start learning Quantum Field Theory, General Relativity, Statistical Physics and more specialized sectors of Physics like Astrophysics or Nuclear Physics.

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Required and corequired courses

Courses requiring this course

Cours ayant celui-ci comme co-requis

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical course with black board derivations of results. Exercise seminars carried on by students with the help of an assistant teacher.

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

Classical Electrodynamics, J.D.Jackson Introduction to Electrodynamics, D.J.Griffith Feynman's Lecture on Physics, volume II

Other information

Contacts

Petr Tiniakov: Petr.Tiniakov@ulb.ac.be Léon Brenig: lbrenig@ulb.ac.be

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Other

Other

Written examination followed by oral examination. The latter is essentially based on the failed questions of the written exam.

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