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Unusually Special Relativity

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Course ID:	1100-2`NSTW
Erasmus code / ISCED:	13.202 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (unknown)
Course title:	Unusually Special Relativity
Name in Polish:	Niezwykle szczególna teoria względności
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Physics
Course groups:	Astronomy (1st level); Elective courses Astronomy, individual path; elective courses Physics (1st level); elective courses Physics (2nd cycle); courses from list "Selected Problems of Modern Physics" Physics, individual path; elective courses
Course homepage:	http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~dragan
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	6.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Main fields of studies for MISMaP:	astronomy mathematics physics
Type of course:	elective monographs
Short description:	The most important and the most interesting aspects of Special Relativity.
Full description:	The purpose of the lecture is to present the most important problems of Special Relativity in a clear and straightforward way. Except for the usual topics discussed during the standard courses I will also talk about many interesting relativistic effects not mentioned in other lectures or textbooks. I will present several known and unknown ,,paradoxes'' of special relativity as well as unusual and interesting problems of relativistic classical mechanics, electrodynamics and quantum theory. From Lorentz transformation, throughout the Thomas-Wigner rotations, non-inertial, uniformly accelerated observers, Lienard-Wiechert potentials and superluminal reference frames until the event horizon and black and white holes.
Bibliography:	"Unusually Special Relativity", World Scientific Publishing (2021). Online resources: www.youtube.com/c/relaTVty
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	The assessment will depend on the results of the final exam. Students are expected to be engaged and active during the course.

Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span:	2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO TU W WYK TH FR WYK
Type of class:	Lecture, 60 hours more information
Coordinators:	Andrzej Dragan
Group instructors:	Andrzej Dragan
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Examination

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