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  • Course Number / Code:
  • 8.251 (Spring 2007) 
  • Course Title:
  • String Theory for Undergraduates 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Physics 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Barton Zwiebach
    Prof. Alan Guth 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 8.251 String Theory for Undergraduates



    Spring 2007




    Course Highlights




    8.251 String Theory for Undergraduates



    Spring 2007


    Building a torus from a cylinder of circumference 2pi and length T.
    A torus is built from a cylinder of circumference 2π and length T by gluing the edges with a twist angle θ. The set of inequivalent tori is represented by the points in the orange region. In all these tori the shortest geodesic has length greater than or equal to 2π. (Image by MIT OCW.)


    Course Description


    This course introduces string theory to undergraduate and is based upon Prof. Zwiebach's textbook entitled A First Course in String Theory. Since string theory is quantum mechanics of a relativistic string, the foundations of the subject can be explained to students exposed to both special relativity and basic quantum mechanics. This course develops the aspects of string theory and makes it accessible to students familiar with basic electromagnetism and statistical mechanics.
     

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