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At the end of the course the student should understand the need for 2nd quantisation, understand the concept of fields and their excitations, and understand the tools of QFT used to calculate particle interactions as observed in high-energy particle physics.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 36 |
Specified Learning Activities | 48 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 42 |
Total | 126 |
1) Classical Mechanics (Lagrangian, Hamiltonian)
2) Special Relativity (Lorentz Transformations, relativistic energy / momentum / mass, 4-vector notation 4-tensors)
3) Electromagnetism
4) Quantum Mechanics (Harmonic Oscillator, Angular Momentum, Ladder/Creation/Annihilation operators)
5) High Energy Particle Physics (can be taken in parallel)
Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
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In-Module Resit | Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Not yet recorded.
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Thurs 09:00 - 10:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Wed 10:00 - 10:50 |