Course Description
| Instructors: | Juan Cabanela | |
| Office: | Hagen Hall 307B (218-477-2453) | |
| Research Lab: | Hagen Hall 302 (218-477-2458) | |
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| IM: | AstroJuanCab (AIM) (MSN) Cabanela (Yahoo! IM) |
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| Office Hours: | To be Announced Those are my "formal" office hours. However, during the day I am usually somewhere on the Third Floor of Hagen Hall when I am not teaching. Feel free to track me down and ask questions if they come up. My Full Schedule can be found here. |
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| Class Homepage: | http://phys322.cabanela.com/ NOTE: In an effort to save on needless destruction of trees, we will provide the majority of handouts in the form of electronic documents posted to this website. As such, it would be highly beneficial for you to bookmark the class homepage and check it often. |
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| Required Textbook: | Modern Physics (2nd Edition) by Randy Harris (Pearson, Addison Wesley) ISBN: 0-8053-0308-1 | |
| Class Meeting Times: | Tuesday and Thursdays, 10:30 am - 11:45 am in Hagen Hall 325 See schedule for additional details. |
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Course Bulletin Description
special relativity, wave-particle duality, Bohr atom, quantum mechanics, hydrogen atom, many electron atoms, nuclear properties and nuclear reactions. Prerequisite: PHYS 201.
Materials Required or Suggested:
- [Required] Access to the Internet, since all course materials that would traditionally be “handouts” will be posted online (see us if this is an issue).
- [Required] Modern Physics (2nd Edition) by Randy Harris (Pearson, Addison Wesley) ISBN: 0-8053-0308-1
Course Objectives
By the end of this course you should be able to:
- Describe qualitatively the relationship between special relativity, quantum mechanics, and classical mechanics. Notably how classical mechanics is really a special case situation for non-relativistic speeds and macroscopic situations.
- Describe, using words, diagrams and tables, the basic atomic and subatomic constituents of matter.
- Explain qualitatively, using the quantum nature of light and matter, and the conservation of momentum, the observed interaction between photons and matter in a given situation.
- Predict, using the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the lower limit of size, momentum, energy or time that could be expected in a given atomic/subatomic measurement or situation.