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 21

Journey to the small
Day 2 Aug 23

Quarks and leptons
Day 3 Aug 25

Fundamental particles
Day 25 Oct 16

Wave description of particle
Day 26 Oct 18

Uncertainty principle
Day 27 Oct 20

Uncertainty principle?
Day 4 Aug 28

Fundamental forces
Day 5 Aug 30

Distribution functions
Day 6 Sep 1

Maxwell- Boltzmann distribution
Day 28 Oct 23

Particle scattering
Day 29 Oct 25

Cross- section
Day 30 Oct 27

Rutherford experiment
Day 7 Sep 4

Holiday
Day 8 Sep 6

Density of states
Day 9 Sep 8

Atoms and radiation
Day 31 Oct 30

Deeper probing
Day 32 Nov 1

Schroginger equation
Day 33 Nov 3

Particle in a box
Day 10 Sep 11

Blackbody radiation
Day 11 Sep 13

Blackbody radiation
Day 12 Sep 15

Radiation quanta
Day 34 Nov 6

Exam 2
Day 35 Nov 8

Finite square well
Day 36 Nov 10

Barrier penetration
Day 13 Sep 18

Radiation quanta
Day 14Sep 20

Atomic spectra
Day 15Sep 22

Bohr model
Day 37 Nov 13

Quantum oscillator
Day 38 Nov 15

Shrodinger equation in 3-D
Day 39 Nov 17

Time- dependent Schrodinger
Day 16 Sep 25

Velocity of Light
Day 17 Sep 27

Lorentz transformation
Day 18Sep 29

Exam 1
Day 40 Nov 20

The hydrogen atom
Day 41 Nov 22

Thanksgiving holiday
Day 42 Nov 24

Thanksgiving holiday
Day 19 Oct 2

Time dilation
Day 20 Oct 4

Relativistic mass
Day 21Oct 6

Relativistic momentum
Day 43 Nov 27

Separation of variables
Day 44 Nov 29

Three quantum numbers
Day 45 Dec 1

Angular momentum
Day 22 Oct 9

Relativistic energy
Day 23 Oct 11

DeBroglie wavelength
Day 24 Oct 13

Electron spectra
Day 46 Dec 4

Hydrogen spectrum
Day 47 Dec 6

Fine structure
Day 48 Dec 8

Selection rules
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