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Relativity - NUFY062
Title: Relativita
Guaranteed by: Laboratory of General Physics Education (32-KVOF)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: cancelled
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Leoš Dvořák, CSc.
Classification: Physics > Teaching
Is pre-requisite for: NUFY061
Annotation -
Last update: T_KDF (22.05.2001)
The lecture should give a "university-level view over the high-school level explanation" of the special theory of relativity. It covers: features of space and time, the road to special relativity, relativistic kinematics and dynamics, some optical phenomena, Minkowski space-time, four-dimensional formalism. For students of and 4th year of combination Math and Physics and 3rd year of combination Physics/Informatics for High Schools.
Literature - Czech
Last update: RNDr. Pavel Zakouřil, Ph.D. (05.08.2002)

Votruba V.: Základy speciální teorie relativity. Academia, Praha 1969 a 1977. (vybrané kapitoly)

Horský J.:Úvod do teorie relativity. SNTL, Praha 1975. (kap.1-5)

Bartuška K.: Kapitoly ze speciální teorie relativity. SPN, Praha 1989

Syllabus -
Last update: T_KDF (23.05.2003)

Postulates of STR and some of their consequences. The principle of relativity in classical physics. Galilei transformation. Ether theory. Experiments leading to STR. (Fizeau, Hoek, Michelson, Kennedy a Thorndike). Relativistic kinematics: Lorentz transformation, length contraction, time dilatation, relativity of simultaneity, transformation of velocity. (Im)possibility of superluminal velocities and causality. "Paradoxes" of relativistic kinematics. Experiments testing relativistic kinematics. Applications. Relativistic dynamics: mass, rest mass, momentum, energy, mass-energy equivalence. Relativistic equation of motion of a mass particle. Collisions. Particle in aelectric and magnetic field. Maxwell equations and Lorentz transformation. Doppler effect. Optical appearance of relativistic objects. Apparent superluminal velocities of quasars. MInkowski spacetime. Spacetime diagrams. Worldlines, hypersurfaces, light cones. Interval. General Lorentz transformation. Main idea of 4-dimensonal formalism of STR.

 
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