welcome to the course on nuclear and particle
physics ah um we are all familiar with the
atoms which are the smallest unit of hundred
plus elements and they are familiar to us
which make most in fact all the matter around
us the modern picture of atom evolved in the
beginning of the twentieth century ah with
the introduction of quantum mechanics which
revolutionized the way we look at the small
physical systems like atoms nucleus and sub
nuclear particles atoms have ah core called
nucleus which holds most of the part of in
the atom and all the positive charge it
now this nucleus will engages in the first
part of this course we shall study the properties
of the nucleus their dynamics including nuclear
reactions and radioactive decays we shall
also discuss theoretical models which describe
this nucleus and explain its properties in
the second part of the course we shall go
further in exploring the sub nuclear particles
or the elementary particles which described
the or which are considered to be the building
blocks of all matter our present understanding
of the elementary particles explain almost
all non experimental facts at the length scales
that we have explored around ten power minus
fifteen to ten power minus eighteen meters
this ah course in the course in this course
we shall introduce the elementary particles
the basic concepts that guides the dynamics
of the elementary particles and some details
of the dynamics itself when we consider the
dynamics of the elementary particles we need
to bring together the quantum mechanics concepts
of quantum mechanics and special theory of
relativity to have a consistent description
of the elementary of the dynamics of the elementary
particles
we require to bring together the principles
of quantum mechanics and special theory of
relativity to understand the mathematical
formalism of elementary particle dynamics
we shall do this study of relativistic quantum
mechanics in somewhat details in this course
we will further introduce the scattering experiments
and briefly discuss the particle physics laboratories
including the particle accelerators and modern
complex detectors ah the course is structured
to span into twelve to thirteen weeks with
about ah forty lectures each with duration
of about one hour we hope you will enjoy the
discussions welcome once again
thank you for listening
