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Modern Physics

Current session:

Fall 2009

Offering:

Fall 4.000 Credit Hours

Prerequisites:

272H or 241

Description:

Review of special relativity; particle properties of electromagnetic radiation; wave properties of particles; uncertainty principle; atomic spectra and X-rays; nuclear structure; elementary particles; statistical distribution laws; physics of solids.

Instructor(s):

HAUGAN, MARK P.

Email:

haugan@purdue.edu

Location

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Textbook(s) for Fall 2009

Textbooks for Fall 2009
Course Title Author Edition ISBN Publisher
PHYS344 Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit Q: Particles Behave Like Waves   Thomas A. Moore  2nd  0-07-239713-6  McGraw-Hill 
PHYS344 Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit R: The Laws of Physics Are Frame-Independent   Thomas Moore  2nd  0-07-239714-4  McGraw-Hill