Students will have some familiarity with main ideas of relativity, with most of the important models of quantum mechanics and with theory of deterministic chaos.

The subject knowledge on the Bachelor´s degree level is requested.

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Sherwin, C., H.: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, New Academic Science Ltd, 2018, ISBN: 978-1781831083 (EN)
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

Teaching methods include lectures and seminars. The course is supoported by an e-learning system, which is, however, used as a repository of lectures and examples only. Students have to write a homework, consisting in solving a single project/assignment independently during the course.

30 points - numerical exercises.
70 points - final exam.

English

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The postulates of relativity and their implications, the Lorentz transformation, world lines, relativistic energy and momentum. The quantization of energy, the wave properties of particles, the uncertainty principle, Hermitian operators, Schrödinger equation, particles in boxes, tunneling through a barrier, spin, radiative transitions, the band theory.
Chaos in conservative and dissipative systems, deterministic chaos.

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the most important ideas, concepts and laws of twentieth-century physics.

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

13 hours, compulsory