MODERN
PHYSICS
SYLLABUS 2009 topics
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Special
Relativity |
inertial
reference frames |
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what's relative & what's not |
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(3- 4
weeks) |
time
dilation |
Serway 1(5) |
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length
contraction |
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the
Lorentz transformations |
Serway 1(6) |
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momentum
and energy |
Serway 1(7-9) |
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collisions
and decays |
Serway 1(10) |
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Nuclear
Physics |
Rutherford
& Geiger |
Beiser 4(1-4) |
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the
nuclear force |
Serway 13(1-3) |
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(2 - 3
weeks) |
radioactive
decay |
Serway 13(4-6) |
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radioactive
dating |
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fission
and fusion |
Serway 14(3-7) |
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Elementary
Particles & the
Forces of Nature |
classifying
the particle zoo |
Serway 15(1-4) |
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the forces
of nature |
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(2 - 3
weeks) |
conservation
laws |
Serway 15(5) |
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evidence
for quarks |
Serway 15(8-10) |
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the mass
of the top quark |
Serway 15 end of chapter Essay |
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accelerators
and detectors |
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bubble
chambers |
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Evidence
for Quantization |
the
photoelectric effect |
Serway 2(4) |
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x-ray
scattering in crystals |
Serway 2(4) |
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the
Particle Nature of Light |
the
Compton effect |
Serway 2(6) |
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Einstein's
General Relativity |
Serway 2(7) |
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(2 - 3
weeks) |
the
spectrum of hydrogen |
Serway 3 |
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the Wave
Nature of Particles |
the
double-slit experiment |
Feynman Lectures
on Physics Chapter
1(37), 3(1) |
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(1 - 2
weeks) |
the de
Broglie wavelength |
Serway 4 |
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Heisenburg's
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