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this is all very standard stuff for a physicist. Any first or second year grad student should have an easy time digesting this.
by gaze 13y ago
this is all very standard stuff for a physicist. Any first or second year grad student should have an easy time digesting this.
- logicallee 13y ago"Pshaw, even the most dimwitted individual should understand this, provided they have a BS in physics, were accepted to grad school, and are in their first or second year."
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- pja 13y agoNah, this is undergrad physics these days. 3rd or 4th year undergrad physics admittedly :)
- gaze 13y agoRelativistic quantum mechanics typically isn't covered during undergrad. Maybe touched on briefly.
- tfgg 13y agoI don't know what university you went to, but it definitely was on my course. Second or third year. The idea that you wouldn't cover relativistic QM in undergrad physics is pretty absurd, and probably indicative of how shallow American undergrad degrees are.
- sanderjd 13y agoDefensive American undergraduate educated anecdote: my degree was in computer science and I studied this third year. Can't speak for anybody else.
- fretless 13y agoThere are ~2,500 institutions in the U.S granting bachelors degrees, and you're happy to make sweeping generalizations about all of them.
- pja 13y agoCambridge Physics Part II (third year of the Natural Sciences tripos) includes relativistic QM as a core 3rd year topic. The Cambridge Physics course is fairly hard core of course, but I would expect such a course to be part of any serious Physics undergraduate degree in the UK.