Course detail
Modern Physics
FEKT-MPA-MFYAcad. year: 2023/2024
The postulates of relativity and their implications, the Lorentz transformation, world lines, relativistic energy and momentum. Quantization of energy, wave properties of particles, the uncertainty principle, Hermitian operators, Schrödinger equation, particles in potential fields, tunneling through a barrier, spin, principles of a laser, radiative transitions, band theory of solids.
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Literature
Griffiths, D., J.: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Cambridge University Press; 3 edition, 2018, ISBN: 978-1107189638 (EN)
Sartori, L.: Understanding Relativity, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1996, ISBN: 978-0520200296 (EN)
Hillborn, R., C.: Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction for. Scientists and Engineers, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN: 978-0198507239 (EN)
Sakurai, J., J., Napolitano, J., J.: Modern Quantum Mechanics, 2 edition, Pearson, 2010, ISBN: 978-0805382914 (EN)
Hiller, J., Johnston, I., Styer D.: Quantum Mechanics Simulations, Wiley, 1995, ISBN: 978-0471548843
Brandt, D., Hiller, J., Moloney, M.: Modern Physics Simulations, Wiley, 1995, ISBN: 978-0471548829
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70 points - final exam.
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Chaos in conservative and dissipative systems, deterministic chaos.
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- Programme MPA-EEN Master's, 1. year of study, winter semester, 5 credits, compulsory-optional
- Programme MPA-MEL Master's, 1. year of study, winter semester, 5 credits, compulsory-optional
- Programme MPAD-MEL Master's, 1. year of study, winter semester, 5 credits, compulsory-optional
- Programme MPA-EAK Master's, 1. year of study, winter semester, 5 credits, compulsory-optional
- Programme MPA-BIO Master's, 2. year of study, winter semester, 5 credits, compulsory-optional