Physics 2750: Modern Physics
Course information
Text: Serway and Jewett, Physics for Scientists and Engineers (with Modern Physics -- you'll need Chapters 39-46), Brooks/Cole-Thomson (2010). There are electronic and paper versions of these texts available.
Note: It is possible to use your text from PHYS 1051 (Serway and Jewett, Principles of Physics, Brooks/Cole-Thomson, any edition -- you'll need chapters 28-31), but be forewarned that you'll be missing some material on relativity that we cover during the first part of the course.
Classes: T,Th 12:00-12:50, F 13:00-13:50 in C2045
Prerequisites: Math 1001, Physics 1051
Topics: Special relativity, quanta of light, atomic structure and spectral lines, quantum structure of atoms and molecules, nuclei and elementary particles.
Instructor information
Instructor: Kris Poduska
E-mail: kris_at_mun.ca
Evaluation scheme
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Created 10 Nov 2012