PHY 140Y
FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS
1998-99
COURSE OUTLINE - SPRING TERM
 
 
TOPIC  TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS
  • Gravitation
9.1 - 9.7
  • Electrostatics, Coulomb's Law
23.1 - 23.5
  • Gauss's Law
24.1 - 24.5
  • Electrostatic Potential
25.1 - 25.3
  • Rigid-body Rotation, torque and moment of inertia
12.1 - 12.5
  • Angular momentum, 3D rotation and gyroscopes
13.1 - 13.6
  • Black body radiation, photoelectric effect and the Bohr atom
39.1 - 39.4
Midterm Exam, Tuesday 23 February
  • Matter waves and the uncertainty principle
39.5 - 39.7
  • Quantum mechanics, particle in a square well, quantum oscillators and tunnelling
40.1 - 40.7
  • Atomic physics
41.1 - 41.4
  • Nuclear Physics
43.1 - 43.6
  • Fission
44.1 - 44.3
  • Quarks and Cosmology
45.1 - 45.5
 

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