PH354  Resources  - Spring 21


BASIC LINKS

Undergraduate physics Hyperphysics
Open archive arXiv
High Energy INSPIRE

All the papers you want Sci-Hub
All the textbooks you want: Library Genesis

TEXTBOOK AND LECTURE NOTES

Physics theories Overview


  - Math

UNM Physics and Astronomy- Matrix Algebra
K. M. Udayanandan - Lecture notes on introduction to tensors
K. Dullemond & K. - Introduction to tensor calculus

  - Relativity

Reference guide

 Reference textbooks:
Modern General Relativity: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Cosmology. - M. Guidry (general theory, cosmology)
Gravitation and Spacetime. - H. C. Ohanian and R. Ruffini (gravitational waves, black hole solution)

Reference topics:
 Minkowski Spacetime - Lecture Notes
Stony Brook -  Slide on Special Relativity
Sean  Carroll  -  Lecture notes on General Relativity (for cosmology)
Columbia University -  Lecture Notes on General Relativity
Einstein Field Equation - Video Lecture for GR
Schwarzschild Solution - Lecture notes
M87 Black Hole Picture - Papers

- Standard Model

Nuclear Physics - notes
Nuclear Energy and elementary particle - notes

Reference textbook:
Introduction to Elementary Particles. - D. Griffiths


- Astrophysics 

Stellar evolution - Chandra animation


HOMEWORK

HW1 - 26 Jan 2021 at 3:30 pm
HW2 - 02 Feb 2021 at 3:30 pm
HW3 - 11 Feb 2021 at 3:30 pm
HW4 - 18 Feb 2021 at 3:30 pm
HW5 - 25 Feb 2021 at 3:30 pm
HW6 - 04 Mar 2021 at 3:30 pm
HW7 - 18 Mar 2021 at 3:30 pm
HW8 - 06 Apr 2021 (no extensions)
HW9 - 20 Apr 2021 at 3:30pm

THESIS PROJECTS: SUGGESTIONS

1 - Covariant formulation of Electromagnetism
2 - Noether Theorem and conserved quantities in field theory
3 - Elementary particle and representations of Poincare group: the Wigner's classification
4 - Star evolution
5 - Gauge invariance of the standard model
6 - Riemann geometry: the connection
7 - Shapes of space: cosmic topology
8 - Lie Group and Algebra
9 - Particles' proprieties of the Standard Model
10 - Hole argument
11 - Cosmology
12 - You tell me


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