Space-time and its effect on objects moving at high speeds. Invariance of the space-time interval. Relativity of simultaneity. Time dilation, Lorentz contraction and the Lorentz Transformation. Invariance of the energy momentum 4 vector and its effect on high energy particle collisions. Course offered electronically only. Corequisite: PHZ 3601L.

PHZ 4113 Mathematical Physics I . . . . . 3(3,0)

Complex algebra and calculus. Dirac delta function. Fourier series and integrals. Vector algebra and calculus. Simple curvilinear coordinates. Prerequisite: MAC 3313.

PHZ 4114 Mathematical Physics II . . . . . 3(3,0)

Generalized curvilinear coordinates, boundary value problems, special functions, advanced Fourier series and integrals, analytic functions of a complex variable. Prerequisite: MAP 3302 and PHZ 4113.

PHZ 4303 Introduction to Nuclear Physics . . . . . 3(3,0)

Radioactivity, physics of nucleus, nuclear models. Prerequisites: MAP 3302, PHY 3101 and PHY 4604.

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