Week - 1 |
Introduction, Concept of reference frame, Velocity transformations (Galileo transformations) |
Week - 2 |
Postulates of Relativity: Special and General theory of relativity, Michelson-Morley experiment, Time dilation, Length contraction, Lorentz transformations |
Week - 3 |
Lorentz transformations, Doppler effect, Twin paradoz, Relativity of mass, Conservation of mass and energy, Problem solving |
Week - 4 |
Particle properties of waves, Photoelectric effect, Planck and Black body radiation, Quantum theory of light |
Week - 5 |
X-rays, Compton effect, Pair production and annihilation, Problem solving |
Week - 6 |
I. Midterm |
Week - 7 |
Photon and gravity, Black hole-Scwarzchild radius, Wave properties of particles, Davisson-Germer experiment |
Week - 8 |
Double slit experiment and electrons, Particle in a box, Uncertainty principle, wave equation |
Week - 9 |
Atomic structure, Atom models, Electron orbits, Atomic spectra, Spectral lines |
Week - 10 |
Spectral lines, Bohr Atom, Correspondence principle, Excitation of Atoms, Frank-Hertz experiment, Nuclear Motion |
Week - 11 |
de Broglie wavelength, Laser, Review and problem solving |
Week - 12 |
2. Midterm |
Week - 13 |
Quantum mechanics, wave function and wave equation, Schrödinger equation |
Week - 14 |
Expectation value, Particle in a box, potential step, tunneling |