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| PHYS 34200 - Modern Physics |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of basic concepts and phenomena in atomic, nuclear, and solid-state physics.
0.000 OR 3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture, Recitation Offered By: College of Science Department: Physics and Astronomy Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: PU Fort Wayne IUPUI Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop new concepts to relate space and time. 2. Describe the interactions of matter on the sub-microscopic scale. 3. Learn post-Newtonian concepts that revolutionized physics and impact all scientific, engineering and medical disciplines. 4. Learn special relativity, wave-particle duality, quantum mechanics, atom structure, nuclear structure and radioactivity, nuclear reactions and elementary particles. 5. Use analytical and numerical (computational methods. 6. Learn to formulate and solve problems in modern physics and recognize the paradigm shift from classical physics that their solutions represent. |
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