JIF 103 PHYSICS 1

THREE MAIN TOPICS & SUB-TOPICS

1.

BASIC THEORY OF RELATIVITY

Classical Relativity: what assumptions, its mathematics, what works & what do not
(a) Galilean Transformation: the classical mathematics of relativity

Galilean transformation of spacetime

Galilean transformation of velocity

Limits of Galilean transformation

Physics laws under Galileo transformation: any changes?

(b) In search of the absolute reference frame: ether where art thou?

Michelson-Moley Ether Experiment: no absolute reference frame

Special Relativity: its mathematics and its implications

(a) Lorentz transformation: the accompassing mathematics of relativity

Lorentz transformation of spacetime

Lorentz transformation of velocity

(b) Einstein 2 Postulates (2 principals of relativity): what is it & their implications on
spacetime and energy-matter-momentum

Length contraction

Time dilation

Simultaneity

Relativistic momentum

Mass, energy and momentum

Spacetime intervals

2.

WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY

Particles Properties of Waves

Photoelectric effect

Compton effect

X-rays

Wave Properties of Particles

De Broglie waves

Davisson Germer Experiment

Wave packet

Heisenberg uncertainty principle

3. ATOMIC MODEL

Development of early atomic model

Thomson atomic model

Rutherford nuclear atomic model

Bohr atomic model

Line spectra

Frank Hertz experiment

Hydrogenic atom

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