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PHYS34200 (PHYS342) Fall 2008

Modern Physics

Current session: Fall 2008

Offering: Fall, Spring, Class 3, cr. 3

Prerequisites: PHYS 241, 251, or 261

Description: Modern physics is the physics of extremes. From systems at the extremely small (atoms, nuclei, fundamental particles) to the extremely large (the Universe). From systems of the extremely fast (relativity) and extremely massive (neutron stars, black holes), to systems of the extremely hot (thermonuclear reactions) and extremely cold (superconductivity). This is the physics course you have been waiting for.

Instructor(s):
CAFFEE, MARC

Email:
mcaffee@physics.purdue.edu

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Course	Title	Author	Edition	ISBN	Publisher
PHYS342	Modern Physics	Kenneth Krane	2nd	0-471-82872-6	Wiley
PHYS342	Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit R: The Laws of Physics are Frame-Independent (Relativity)	Thomas Moore	Latest	007-239714-4	McGraw-Hill