PHY 343 - Modern Physics.

PHY 245 and MTH 122, each with a grade of C (2.0) or better. Prior or concurrent election of MTH 222 recommended. (3).

Topics selected from: special relativity, Rutherford-Bohr atom, black body radiation, pair production, Compton effect, deBroglie waves, complementarity, uncertainty principles, Schrödinger equation and applications, Zeeman effect, atomic and molecular spectra, X-ray spectra and diffraction; nuclear properties, forces, and models, radioactivity, nuclear transmutations, accelerators, elementary particles.