PHYS 2022 - Modern Physics

Course last offered 

 :   

Fall 2023/24

Instructor(s)

 :

WANG Yi

No. of credits

 :

3



Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 13 weeks

  • Tutorial hour(s) / laboratory hour(s) per week: 3 / 1

 

Content

  • Introduction to relativity
  • Introduction to quantum theory: particle-wave duality and Schrodinger equation
  • Atoms, molecules
  • Statistical physics: Maxwell, Bose and Fermi distributions

 

Remarks

  • Prerequisite(s): PHYS 1114 OR PHYS 1154 (prior to 2014-15) OR PHYS 1314 OR PHYS 2421