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Theory of Relativity - NUFY097
Title: Teorie relativity
Guaranteed by: Department of Physics Education (32-KDF)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2014 to 2020
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 2
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Leoš Dvořák, CSc.
Classification: Physics > Teaching
Annotation -
Last update: T_KDF (14.05.2012)
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.
Aim of the course -
Last update: T_KVOF (28.03.2008)

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.

Literature - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Leoš Dvořák, CSc. (06.10.2017)

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

Doplňková literatura:

Horský J., Novotný J., Štefaník M.: Mechanika ve fyzice, Academia, Praha, 2001

Teaching methods - Czech
Last update: T_KVOF (28.03.2008)

přednáška

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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