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| Course | Classical Mechanics (203-1-2281) |
| Attn. | Physics (2nd year students) |
| Books | Landau & Lifshitz:
Mechanics Goldstein, Poole & Safko: Classical Mechanics |
| Syllabus | Lagrangian formalism, Galileo principle, conservation laws, constrained systems, central field, Kepler problem, scattering, Rutherford formula, small oscillations, rigid body, Euler equations, Hamilton's equations, Poisson brackets, canonical transformations, Liouville theorem, Hamilton-Jacobi equation. |
| Notes | Teaching Survey 2018 |
| Course | Introduction to Particles and Fields (203-1-3421) |
| Attn. | Physics (3rd year students) |
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| Syllabus | Poincare group, mass and spin, Tachyons, CPT, Fermions and Bosons, Lagrangian formalism, energy/momentum tensor, real/complex scalar field, global/local symmetry, U(1) gauge invariance, Maxwell equations ,Spontaneously broken symmetry, Isospin, Hypercharge, Unitary symmetry, The eightfold way, quarks and leptons,The generation puzzle, massless/massive neutrinos. |
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| Course 2019 |
Particle Physics I (203-2-4961) |
| Attn. | Physics (graduate students) |
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| Syllabus | The Lagrangian formalism, Self interacting scalar fields, Spontaneous breakdown of a discrete symmetry, Goldstone theorem, Higgs mechanism, Classical Non-Abelian gauge theory, The Dirac equation, the massive case, Massless Weyl (Majorana) fermions, The effective 4-Fermi theory, V-A theory, Parity non-conserevation, The minimal Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model, Massive gauge fields W and Z, The Yukawa sector, spontaneously induced fermion masses, Neutral/charged current weak interactions. |
| Notes | Teaching Survey 2019  |
| Course | Particle Physics II (203-2-4971) |
| Attn. | Physics (graduate students) |
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| Syllabus | The flavor (family, generation) puzzle, Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mixings, The GIM mechanism, K0-K0' mass difference, weak CP-violation. QCD, confinement, asymptotic freedom, Non-minimal extensions of the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model, Strong CP-violation, the Axion model, Horizontal symmetries, Neutrino physics, the seesaw mechanism, Left-Right symmetry, Pati-salam model, B-L as the fourth color, Georgi-Glashow SU(5) minimal grand Unification, Proton decay, Neutron oscillation, SO(10), E(6) grand unifications. |
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| Course 2019 |
Physics I (185-1-1002) |
| Attn. | Flight Academy (1st year students) |
| Books | R. Resnick, D. Halliday & K.S. Krane: Physics Vol. 2 |
| Syllabus | Kinematics, Newton's law, work
and energy, linear momentum, reference frames,
circular motion, harmonic motion, rigid body. |
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