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  • Modern Physics
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Course Introduction Information

Code - Course Title FİZ218 - Modern Physics
Course Type Required Courses
Language of Instruction İngilizce
Laboratory + Practice 4+0
ECTS 6.0
Course Instructor(s)
Mode of Delivery Face to face lectures, Demonstration, Problem Solving.
Prerequisites No prerequisite
Courses Recomended It is suggested that FİZ115 and FİZ116 (Physics I and II) have been taken.
Recommended Reading List Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Taylor, Zafiratos, Dubson)and many other books about Modern Physics in the library!
Assessment methods and criteria Written exams - 2 Mid-Terms and 1 Final
Work Placement NO
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Content

Weeks Topics
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

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  • Problem Solving
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  • Rational
  • Questoning
  • Eleştirel düşünebilme
  • Abstract analysis and synthesis
  • Problem solving
  • Elementary computing skills

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Assessment Method and Passing Requirements
Quamtity Percentage (%)
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