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Topics include:
Relativity—postulates of special relativity, Lorentz transformations, length contraction, time dilation, relativistic dynamics, mass increase, mass–energy relation, energy–momentum relation.
Modern physics—wave functions and the Schroedinger equation, tunnelling, spin, Pauli exclusion principle, multi-electron atoms, Zeeman effect, X-ray spectra, nuclei and radioactivity, lasers, atom traps and cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation, astronomy, cosmology.
Symmetries and conservation laws—conserved quantities, forces and potential energy, linear momentum, angular momentum and rotations, orbits and scattering in central potentials, chaos, lattice waves and phonons, light scattering and polaritons, quantisation of angular momentum.
Resonance phenomena—inductance, LCR circuits, phasors, complex impedance, frequency response, equipartition theorem, frequency response as a Fourier transform, mechanical resonators, fluctuations and dissipation, noise, spectral lines and resonance, electron spin resonance, NMR. |
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- Books and other materials wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.
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