PHY 343 - Modern Physics

PHY 245 with a grade of C (2.0) or better; MTH 222 with a grade of C (2.0) or better or concurrent election of MTH 222. (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. Graded ABCDE