By the end of the module the student should be able to: - use the Lorentz transformations to translate events between inertial frames;
- calculate time dilation and Lorentz contractions;
- use the energy momentum invariant to solve simple problems relativistic kinematics;
- deduce when non-relativistic transformations can be used;
- convert a description of a probability problem into a space of possible outcomes and their probabilities and use this information to calculate conditional probabilities;
- recognise problems that represent binomial probability or Poisson distributions and be able to calculate probabilities from such distributions;
- use a probability distribution function of a continuous variable and to be able to compute probabilities, averages and variances of such distributions
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