PHYS 345 Introduction to Modern Physics
This course in an introduction to a variety of topics in modern physics including relativity, quantum mechanics, statistics physics, subatomic physics, and their applications.
Offered
As needed
Student Learning Outcomes
- Understand the implications of relativity on space-time and be able to perform Lorentz transformations.
- Describe wave-particle duality.
- Explain the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
- Understand and utilize the time-independent Schrodinger equation in one and three dimensions.
- Explain the physical properties that impact atomic, nuclear structure, and radioactivity.
- Perform calculations describing nuclear phenomenon.