PHYS 353

Galileo transformations, Michelson-Morley experiment, Einstein’s postulates, Lorentz transformations, relativity of time and space, collisions in relativity.

Particle properties of radiation: photoelectric effect, black body radiation, Compton effect.

Wave properties of particles: de Broglie hypothesis, de Broglie waves, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Wave packets. Probabilities and randomness.

Wave behavior at boundary regions (interfaces between two physical mediums), particle confinement, one-dimensional Schrödinger equation, applications of the Schrödinger equation: quantum simple harmonic oscillator, thresholds, and barriers.

A simplified presentation of the basic properties of the atom. Thomson model, Rutherford experiment, atomic nucleus. Spectra, Bohr model.

One-dimensional atom. Angular momentum in the hydrogen atom, spin, Zeeman effect.