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Professor Raymond Brock Tu 11am-1pm |
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| www.pa.msu.edu/~brock/ 3210 BioPhysical Sciences Building 3.1693 brock@pa.msu.edu www.pa.msu.edu/~brock/ |
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nominally, M, W, F 3:00 - 3:50pm; |
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Textbooks
| required | there are no required textbooks |
| optional | there are a number of optional books for your choice in the bookstore. The best, still, is Sakurai and I apologize for its price. I suggest strongly a search online for a used copy issued before its recent republication. |
| The history of this field is very interesting and often a focus of attention for historians and philosophers of science. For fun, I list below books written by knowledgable historians, in some cases, physicists. | |
Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories Tian Yu Cao |
a philosopher of science from Boston University |
| How is Quantum Field Theory Possible? Sunny Y. Auyang |
A physicist from MIT |
QED and the Men Who Made It |
A very senior physicist who wrote one of the first field theory textbooks |
Course material / Grading
grading |
The grades from the course will be based on problem sets during the semester. There will be no midterm and no final. We may meet during finals week to continue lecture material. |
| general comments | The course is a broad one based on Relativistic Quantum Field theory and the Standard Model. It will have the following general subjects:
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