PHYS 306 - Modern Physics

Units: 3
1.5 hours lecture twice per week
Prerequisite: PHYS 101 or PHYS 201 , MATH 151
Survey of modern physics. Topics include: Special relativity, the Bohr model, Quantum mechanics; photons, the photoelectric effect, probability density, matter waves, Schrodinger mechanics of simple systems, the Uncertainty Principle, tunneling, spin and angular momentum, atomic and molecular structure. Selected topics from nuclear and solid state physics. Applications of the principles will be emphasized.