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# Traditional Roadmap

Most universities follow the traditional roadmap, which follows the historical "order" of the theories.

## Theoretical Physics

 Classical Mechanics kinematics, forces, circular motion, energy, momentum, rotations, harmonic motion, Newton's laws, Lagrangian Mechanics, Hamiltonian Mechanics, phase space, configuration space Electrodynamics Coulomb's Law, electric circuits, Maxwell's equations Special Relativity Minkowski space, time dilation, proper time, Lorentz group, Poincare group, inertial frames of reference Quantum Mechanics double slit experiment, Schrödinger's equations, canonical commutation relations, particle in a box, perturbation theory, Heisenberg picture, tunneling Quantum Field Theory Klein-Gordan equation, Dirac equation, second quantization, scattering theory, path integral formalism General Relativity Einstein equation, Schwarzschild metric

## Mathematics

There are several math topics that are usually learned parallel to the theories:

 Classical Mechanics trigonometric functions, differential calculus, integral calculus, differential equations, variational calculus, Legendre transforms Electrodynamics vector calculus, complex numbers, systems of linear equations, linear algebra, Fourier transforms Special Relativity group theory Quantum Mechanics Hilbert spaces, special functions Quantum Field Theory Taylor approximations, distributions, Greens functions General Relativity differential geometry

## Experimental Physics

In addition, there are other topics that are often covered in "experimental physics" courses:

• Optics
• Waves
• Nuclear Physics
resources/roadmaps/traditional.txt · Last modified: 2018/05/05 15:18 by jakobadmin