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 26

Journey to the small
Day 2 Aug 28

Quarks and leptons
Day 17 Oct 21

Wave description of particle
Day 18 Oct 23

Uncertainty principle
Day 3 Sep 2

Fundamental forces and particles
Day 4 Sep 4

Distribution functions
Day 19 Oct 28

Particle scattering, cross section
Day 20 Oct 30

Rutherford experiment
Day 5 Sep 9

Holiday
Maxwell- Boltzmann distribution
Day 6 Sep 11

Atoms and radiation
Day 21 Nov 4

Deeper probing
Day 22 Nov 6

Schrodinger equation, particle in a box
Day 7 Sep 16

Blackbody radiation
Day 8 Sep 18

Blackbody radiation
Day 23 Nov 11

Finite square well
Day 24 Nov 13

Barrier penetration
Day 9 Sep 23

Radiation quanta
Day 10Sep 25

Atomic spectra
Day 26 Nov 18

Quantum oscillator
Day 27 Nov 21

Shrodinger equation in 3-D
Day 11 Sep 30

Velocity of Light
Day 12 Oct 2

Lorentz transformation
Day 28 Nov 25

Thanksgiving holiday
Day 27 Nov 24

Thanksgiving holiday
Day 13 Oct 7

Time dilation
Day 14 Oct 9

Relativistic mass , momentum & energy
Day 30 Dec 2

Separation of variables
Day 31 Dec 4

Three quantum numbers
Day 15 Oct 14

Relativity
Day 16 Oct 16

DeBroglie wavelength
Day 32 Dec 9

Hydrogen spectrum
Day 33 Dec 11

Fine structure
Index

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