Modern Physics

This course discuss in brief the followings:

Classical relativity, Michaelson-Morley experiment, Postulates of special relativity, Lorentz transformations, the consequences of special relativity. The photoelectric effect, Compton effect, the photon. De Broglie waves, the uncertainty principle, wave packets. Probabilities and randomness. Wave at boundaries, trapping particles, the Schrodinger equation, applications of Schrodinger equation, the harmonic oscillator, steps and barriers. The basic properties of the atom, Thomson model, Rutherford experiment, spectral lines, Bohr model. Atom in one dimension, Angular momentum, Spin, Zeeman effect.