Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand the fundamentals
• Have a good knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of physics and of the role of models and theories.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of mathematics suitable for the study of physics, and be able to use this mathematics in applications in the field of physics
• Undertake further study having already acquired and enhanced the necessary learning skills
• Have a rigorous scientific approach
• Solve simple problems in the context of physics by identifying their basic aspects and by using both appropriate theoretical and experimental methods

Learning Outcomes of UE

Master techniques of tensor calculus
Work with different coordinate systems
Understand the basic principles of special relativity
Solve simple problems in the framework of special relativity

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Tensor calculus
Vector spaces
Tensors and tensor product
Scalar and vector products
Systems of coordinates
Differential operators

Special relativity
Space, time and mass
Lorentz transformations
Lorentz diagrams
Time dilation and length contraction
Minkowski space-time
4-vectors
Equivalence of mass and energy
Particle collisions

Prior Experience

Linear algebra
Matrix calculus and determinant
Vector space
Basic knowledge in mechanics