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Modern Physics

Modern Physics. Welcome to Modern Physics!. Now that you’ve gotten the boring physics courses out of the way, we can do the fun stuff! Modern Physics will take you from the 19 th century up to the 21 st ! It’s all the ideas that have changed the world!. Bedtime reading.

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Modern Physics

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  1. Modern Physics Welcome to Modern Physics! Now that you’ve gotten the boring physics courses out of the way, we can do the fun stuff! Modern Physics will take you from the 19th century up to the 21st! It’s all the ideas that have changed the world!

  2. Bedtime reading Course required text:Quantum Physics of atoms, molecules, solids, nuclei and particles, R. M. Eisberg and R. Resnick (1974) Recommended books: Elementary Modern Physics, R. T. Weidner, R. Sells (1973) Introduction to Special Relativity, R. Resnick (1972) Other helpful books: Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers (3rd ed.) by Thornton & Rex Introduction to Modern Optics, G.R. Fowles Modern Physics, Bernstein, et al. (Prentice-Hall) Modern Physics, Krane (Wiley) Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Taylor, et al (Prentice Hall) Physics for Scientists and Engineers, extended version, Tipler (Freeman) Modern Physics, Serway, et al (Brooks Cole) Modern Physics, Ohanian (Prentice Hall) Concepts of Modern Physics, Beiser (McGraw-Hill) Optics, 4th ed., Eugene Hecht A Student's Guide to Fourier Transforms, J.F. James

  3. My lectures are on the web I’ll be creating and continually modifying them as the term progresses, so it’s best not to download them all the first day, and instead to download each lecture a day or two before class. All my lectures in PDF will be on my web site: http://sci.ui.ac.ir/~sjalali Please download them before class, so you don’t have to take many notes in class.

  4. Homework You would give me your homework per week at my office not in class or under my door. You can work with others on homework (I encourage you to do so!), but write it up yourself.

  5. Evaluation Procedures: • Midterm (40% or 45%) + Final (50% or 45%) + Homework (10%) • Midterm (25% or 30%) + Final (40% or 35%) + Homework (10%) + Research (25%) • N.B. Choice is yours to select procedure Number 1 or Procedure Number 2 • If you wish to select procedure 2, I would suggest going through the following textbooks: • Elementary Modern Physics, R. T. Weidner, R. Sells (1973) • Introduction to Special Relativity, R. Resnick (1972)

  6. The Importance of Having Class In the past, people who have skipped a lot of classes have received very bad grades. Conversely, people who’ve come to most or all of the classes nearly always receive A’s and B’s. You should come to class because there’s a lot that I’ll say that won’t be in the Power Point files. And which will be on the quizzes.

  7. Modern Physics has very some unintuitive ideas. In fact, this course will hit you with more than any other course you’ll ever take. The goal is simply to expose you to them, and later courses will cover them on more detail.

  8. Understanding the ideas of each lecture requires the knowledge of the previous lectures. If you keep up, you won’t end up looking like this the night before the exams!

  9. Modern Physics Special relativity Quantum mechanics Wave, particles, and weirdness Atoms, molecules, and nuclei Particle physics General relativity and Cosmology Revolutions in other fields

  10. Modern Physics is 20th century physics. 19th century physicists thought they had it all together. They had Physics I and II down and thought that that was about it. All that remained was to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. Scanning-tunneling microscope image of individual atoms Man, were they in for a surprise. Several of them actually. Modern physics is the story of these surprises (quantum mechanics and special and general relativity), surprises—revolutions, actually—that have changed the world beyond all recognition. The purpose of this course is to introduce you to all this fun new stuff.

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