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Detailed Programme of the Week 10/10/2022 -- 10/14/2022:

-- Hamilton's Principle. Noether's theorem



LECT 12-13 -- Tuesday 10/11/2022 -
2h Bonciani    14:00-16:00  (Conversi)

Hamilton's Principle. Euler-Lagrange equations. Symmetries and Noether's Theorem. Space-time symmetries and Internal symmetries.


LECT 14-15 -- Thursday 10/13/2022 - 2h Bonciani
   14:00-16:00  (Conversi) 

Continuity equation. Conserved current. Conservation of the charge.Space-Time symmetries. Invariance under Lorentz transformations.
Energy-momentum Tensor. Angular momentum. Scalar fields and pure inhomogeneous Poincare' transformations, conservation of  four-momentum. Proper Lorentz transformations and conservation of the angular momentum. 
Lie groups and representations. 



LECT 16 -- Friday 10/14/2022 - 1h Bonciani   8:00-9:00  (Conversi) 

Proper Lorentz transformations and conservation of the angular momentum.  Introduction to groups. [Maggiore] [Wu-Ki Tung, "Group Theory in Physics", chap.2]