Physics 3401, Modern Physics I

The links in the active calendar below will take you to review material at a more elementary, conceptual level.
Day 1 Aug 19

Journey to the small
Day 2 Aug 21

Quarks and leptons
Day 3 Aug 23

Fundamental particles
Day 25 Oct 14

Wave description of particle
Day 26 Oct 16

Uncertainty principle
Day 27 Oct 18

Uncertainty principle?
Day 4 Aug 26

Fundamental forces
Day 5 Aug 28

Distribution functions
Day 6 Aug 30

Maxwell- Boltzmann distribution
Day 28 Oct 21

Particle scattering
Day 29 Oct 23

Cross- section
Day 30 Oct 25

Rutherford experiment
Day 7 Sep 2

Holiday
Day 8 Sep 4

Density of states
Day 9 Sep 6

Atoms and radiation
Day 31 Oct 28

Deeper probing
Day 32 Oct 30

Schroginger equation
Day 33 Nov 1

Particle in a box
Day 10 Sep 9

Blackbody radiation
Day 11 Sep 11

Blackbody radiation
Day 12 Sep 13

Radiation quanta
Day 34 Nov 4

Exam 2
Day 35 Nov 6

Finite square well
Day 36 Nov 8

Barrier penetration
Day 13 Sep 16

Radiation quanta
Day 14Sep 18

Atomic spectra
Day 15Sep 20

Bohr model
Day 37 Nov 11

Quantum oscillator
Day 38 Nov 13

Shrodinger equation in 3-D
Day 39 Nov 15

Time- dependent Schrodinger
Day 16 Sep 23

Velocity of Light
Day 17 Sep 25

Lorentz transformation
Day 18Sep 27

Exam 1
Day 40 Nov 18

The hydrogen atom
Day 41 Nov 20

Separation of variables
Day 42 Nov 22

Three quantum numbers
Day 19 Sep 30

Time dilation
Day 20 Oct 2

Relativistic mass
Day 21Oct 4

Relativistic momentum
Day 43 Nov 25

Angular momentum
Day 44 Nov 27

Thanksgiving Holiday
Day 45 Nov 29

Thanksgiving Holiday
Day 22 Oct 7

Relativistic energy
Day 23 Oct 9

DeBroglie wavelength
Day 24 Oct 11

Electron spectra
Day 46 Dec 2

Hydrogen spectrum
Day 47 Dec 4

Fine structure
Day 48 Dec 6

Selection rules
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