Detailed Programme of the Week 09/20/2021 -- 09/24/2021:

-- Introduction and Special Relativity

LECT 1-2 -- Thursday 09/23/2021 - 2h Bonciani 14:00-16:00 (Conversi) meet.google.com/szf-gndu-pwc

Info about the course and the exam. General introduction. Non relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Schoedinger's equation. Wave function and probability density. Description of a single particle state at low energies. The need to include Special Relativity. The Klein-Gordon equation as a relativistic wave equation. Probability density. Negative energy solutions. Attempts to get a correct relativistic wave equation. Dirac's equation. Probability density. Negative energy solutions. Hole theory and the positron. Multi particle formalism. Energy and mass. Classical Electrodynamics. Wave equations as the correct classical field equations. Second quantization.
Galilean relativity and composition of velocities in Newtonian mechanics. Maxwell's equations and Lorentz transformations. Constance of the speed of light. Attempts to reformulate a relativistically covariant version of Mechanics.

LECT 3 -- Friday 09/24/2021 - 1h Bonciani 8:00-9:00 (Majorana) meet.google.com/rkn-mafj-mra

Einstein's postulates of relativity. Criticism of the "absolute time". Simultaneous events. Light front propagation. Invariant interval. Time-like, light-like and space-like intervals and the causality structure of Space-Time. Light cone. Lorentz transformations: Boost in the x direction.