PP2 · Relativistic QM & the Dirac equation
A 15-module path through pp2 · relativistic qm & the dirac equation, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- The Klein-Gordon equation
- The Dirac equation
- Probability density & current
- Gamma matrices & the Clifford algebra
- Spin and the Dirac equation
- Covariant form of the Dirac equation
- Dirac adjoint & bilinear covariants
- Plane-wave solutions
- Spinor normalisation & completeness
- Antiparticles & negative-energy states
- Hole theory & the Dirac sea
- Spin & helicity states
- Chirality & Weyl spinors
- The magnetic moment & g=2
- Intrinsic parity of Dirac fermions