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Jawaher Mutlaq Al-Otaibi

Assistant Professor

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كلية العلوم
B5, F3, R132
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PHYS 353: Modern Physics I

Galileo transformations, Michaelson-Morley experiment, Postulates of special relativity, Lorentz transformations, relativity of space and time, relativistic collisions.
Particle‐like properties and radiation: The photoelectric effect, Black body, Compton effect.
The wave‐like properties of matter: De Broglie waves, the uncertainty principle, wave packets.
Probabilities and randomness.
Wave behavior when crossing boundaries, confining particles, the one‐dimensional Schrodinger equation, applications of Schrodinger equation: the harmonic oscillator, steps and barriers.
Overview of the basic properties of the atom, Thomson model, Rutherford experiment, line spectra, Bohr model.

Atom in one‐dimension, Angular momentum, Spin, Zeeman effect.

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