- Group Theory and Symmetry in Physics
- Fall Semester of odd-numbered years
- 2 credits ( 2 hr lecture/recitation/discussion, 0 hr lab)
- When offered as a half-semester course: ( 4 hr lecture/recitation/discussion, 0 hr lab)
- Prerequisites:
- PHY 810 and PHY 851 or approval of department
Group representation theory as the general framework to formulate fundamental symmetries in physics.
Irreducible states and tensors, projection operator techniques, rotation and translation, Lie groups, Lorentz and Poincaré
groups. Offered first half of semester.
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