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5,0 Credits (ECTS 7,5) |
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| Level: D |
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Department: 17 - FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS
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Teaching language: English
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Oral examination |
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In programs
TTFYA ENGINEERING PHYSICS, Year 4 (elective)
Examiner:
Docent
Per Salomonson
Eligibility:
For single subject courses within Chalmers programmes the same eligibility requirements apply, as to the programme(s) that the course is part of.
Course specific prerequisites
Courses in mechanics correspondning to FFM515 nad FFM520. The course FFM232.
Aim
To present the most useful methods in classical mechanics for particles and fields.
Content
Variational calculus. Tensor notation.
The most important concepts and methods of analytical mechanics, i.e.
the principles of D'Alembert, Hamilton, and Jacobi; Lagrange's and
Hamilton's equations, canonical transformations, the connection
between symmetries and conservation laws. Treatment of systems with
constraints. Applications to relativistic particles and field theories,
e.g. spontaneous symmetry breaking, Goldstone bosons, Higgs' phenomenon,
solitons.
Organisation
Lectures
Literature
Recommended literature: "Classical Mechanics, third edition"
by Goldstein, Poole, and Safko.
Examination
Home assignments and oral examination