Unit MODERN PHYSICS AND ITS TEACHING
- Course
- Mathematics
- Study-unit Code
- A002585
- Curriculum
- Didattico-generale
- Teacher
- Luca Gammaitoni
- Teachers
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- Luca Gammaitoni
- Hours
- 42 ore - Luca Gammaitoni
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- FIS/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- Modern Physics, i.e. the developments of physics starting from the end of the 1800s, through the developments of Quantum Physics and the Theory of Relativity, up to the results obtained in the last 50 years and the methods of teaching these "recent" results.
- Reference texts
- Slides and documents provided by the teacher
- Educational objectives
- Provide an updated view of the discoveries of Physics over the last 100 years in order to be able to convey the essential aspects.
Allow the acquisition of knowledge in the field of PHYSICS that go beyond those that replace the PHYSICS I and PHYSICS II program. - Prerequisites
- Content of Fisica I and Fisica II courses: classical mechanics and fluidodynamics. Classical electrodynamics.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lecture
- Other information
- Contact the teacher
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination. The exam consists of an interview aimed at ascertaining the knowledge acquired by the student on the subject, with reference to the course program and its presentation ability.
- Extended program
- The Modern Physics course is organized in order to present contents from the following topics, with special attention to the teaching issues and the interests of the students.
1) The experimental bases of modern physics. New evidences at the turn of the XIX century.
2) Elements of quantum physics. Historical perspective.
3) Elements of quantum physics. Modern approach
4) Elements of statistical physics. Entropy according to Boltzmann and Gibbs
5) Elements of randomness and fluctuations
6) Elements of special relativity
7) Elements of general relativity
8) Advanced topics (quantum field theory, gravitational waves, quantum computing, .) - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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