AM 364Special Relativity
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1988–89
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1981–82 to 1988–89; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
A tensorial formulation of special relativity, Lorentz transformations and flat space-time; relativistic mechanics and collision phenomena; Maxwell's equations in tensorial form and some of their solutions: energy-momentum tensor of the electromagnetic field and of a fluid; spinors and representations of the Lorentz group. Reference will be made throughout to the experimental verification of special relativity.
As printed in the 1981–82 to 1988–89 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: AM 362/PMATH 365, PHYS 364, or consent of instructor. Not offered 1982-83.
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1981–82 to 1988–89, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1981–82 to 1988–89 8 calendars
A tensorial formulation of special relativity, Lorentz transformations and flat space-time; relativistic mechanics and collision phenomena; Maxwell's equations in tensorial form and some of their solutions: energy-momentum tensor of the electromagnetic field and of a fluid; spinors and representations of the Lorentz group. Reference will be made throughout to the experimental verification of special relativity.
Prereq: AM 362/PMATH 365, PHYS 364, or consent of instructor. Not offered 1982-83.
Offered Winter · 2 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit
- 1981–82 PDF p. 381
- 1982–83 PDF p. 348
- 1983–84* PDF p. 364
- 1984–85* PDF p. 364
- 1985–86* PDF p. 375
- 1986–87* PDF p. 378
- 1987–88* PDF p. 393
- 1988–89* PDF p. 391
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.