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[ 261THPH12 ] Subject Theoretical Physics

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Es ist eine neuere Version 2024W dieses Fachs/Moduls im Curriculum Bachelor's programme Technical Physics 2024W vorhanden.
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31,5 ECTS Accumulative subject examination B1 - Bachelor's programme 1. year Physics Thomas Renger Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Original study plan Bachelor's programme Technical Physics 2012W
Objectives Get in touch with elementary concepts, terms, definitions and assumptions of the most important physical theories, understanding the mathematical and logical construction of these theories and how they are applied to specific physical systems.
Subject Mathematical Methods in Physics:
Recapitulation and extension of vector algebra, analysis and calculus, tensor calculus, curvilinear coordinates, ordinary differential equations, functions of complex variables, Fourier transformations, Dirac delta distribution.

Theoretical Physics:
I. (Mechanics):
mechanics of point particles and rigid bodies, constants of motion, analytical mechanics, introduction into mechanics of the continuum, nonlinear dynamics.
II. (Quantum Mechanics): Basic assumptions, Schrödinger equation for one particle, use of symmetry, approximate methods, identical particles and exchange interaction, the principle of chemical bond.
III. (Electrodynamics): Maxwell's equations, electrostatics and magnetostatics in vacuum and matter, elektromagnetic waves (emission and scattering), special theory of relativity.
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