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2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

PHYS 415 - Relativity

(3 units)

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): PHYS 340B  and MATH 370A  or MATH 364A .

(Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 415; graduates enroll in PHYS 515 .) Lorentz transformation, relativistic kinematics and dynamics, 4-vectors and tensors, transformation of electric and magnetic fields, covariant form of Maxwell’s equations, introduction to general relativity.
 

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-discussion 3 hrs.) Double Numbered with: PHYS 515 .