Course: Particle Physics 397
Instructor: Dr. Giovanetti
Office: 2178
Time:
Textbook: Particle Physics, 2nd Edition
by B. R. Martin, G. Shaw, B. R. Martin, Paperback: 384 pages ;
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2nd edition (August 28, 1997),
ISBN: 0471972851, Dimensions (in inches): 0.86 x 9.62 x 6.50
The notes that follow will review what we covered in the lecture and provide some additional material and comment. I am writing these for twofold purpose:
o For future development of this course- Therefore some of the material may go beyond what has been covered and is presented as a reminder to me.
o Outline material covered this year.
In developing these links I have constructed summaries through extensive use of internet sources. Typically I cut and paste useful comments and then integrate them together in order to develop the clearest description possible. I have included references to some material but by the time some of the summaries were completed I was unable to retrace and identify all sources. One very often used reference is Wikipedia. I recommend it as a good place to start when looking for explanations and definitions.
Links to lectures are below but the lectures might not be available. However the lectures should be added at the latest on the day of the lecture. Please report any broken links so that I can fix the website.
These notes are compilations
of notes from other lectures on similar topics.
This leads to perhaps a jumpy description of the material. A discussion on a given point might be
revisited from a different perspective several times. These notes may visit and
revisit an idea and the supporting detail several times. One approach based on
a lecture in quantum another based on a lecture from particle. If one section seems difficult to understand
then as you read further you may encounter a more understandable discussion of
the same material. This can be
disconcerting if one expects all discussions to be continuations of previous
material rather than a rehash of previous material but from a slightly
different perspective.
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Sound waves frequency vs local, symmetry, transformations, rotations, illustrated with the expansion of a charge distributions, spin structure (start), generators, operators (matrices) |
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Sound as a vector space |
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Material from 2008
Previous course fall 2006 outline and links- The material below may change as I update material for this semester.
Notes from previous year