course
Modern Physics Phys 352)
Course Level : 5th
Credit hours : 4 ( 3+1)
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Part I - Relativity : Classical relativity (Newtonian relativity; Galilean transformation); Einstein’s postulates;; Time dilation & Length contraction; Space-time interval; Relativistic Momentum; Relativistic Energy; Lorentz transformation for Energy and Momentum. Part II- Quantisation of energy , Black-body radiation, Plank Law . Photoelectric effect and Einstien law. Light quanta Compton diffusion and X-Ray , Moseley law and atomic number. Part III- Quantum Theory and quantisation of ` space' ; Atomic spectra , Emission and Absorption spectra. Bohr atomic model and Rydberg formula for atomic transions. Hydrogen atom spectrum. Part IV - Matter Waves and Principles of Quantum Mechanics ; De-Broglie wavepackets , Heisenberguncertainty principle ( Heisenberg Microscope) Measurment in quantum theory and Schroedinger equation . Born probabilstic interptation of quantum mechanics --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References 1- Tipler, Paul A., and Ralph Llewellyn. Modern physics. Macmillan, 2003. 2- Serway, Raymond A., Clement J. Moses, and Curt A. Moyer. Modern physics. Cengage Learning, 2004. 3- Landau, Lev Davidovich, ed. The classical theory of fields. Vol. 2. Elsevier, 2013. 4- Gasiorowicz, Stephen. Quantum physics. John Wiley & Sons, 2007. .
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