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Instructor: Prof. Haiyan Gao

• Office: Physics 204A
• Phone: 660-2595
• Email: gao@phy.duke.edu
• Office hours: Tuesday: 3:00 to 5:00 pm or by appointment

General Course Information:

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Class Meetings:

• Time: Tuesday, Thursday 8:30 - 9:45 am
• Location: Physics Faculty Lounge
• Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/courses/205

Recommended reading:

• Quarks and Leptons, by F. Halzen and A.P. Martin.
• Introductory Nuclear Physics, 2nd Edition, by S. M. Wong.

• Introduction to Elementary Particles , by D. Griffiths,
• An Introduction to Quarks and Partons , by F.E. Close,
• Modern Quantum Mechanics ,by J. J. Sakurai,
• From Nucleons to the Atomic Nucleus , by K. Heyde,
• Introduction to High Energy Physics, 4th Edition,by D. H. Perkins.