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| The Birth Of Modern Physics | |
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| Classical Physics of the 1890s | |
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| The Kinetic Theory of Gases | |
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| Waves and Particles | |
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| Conservation Laws and Fundamental Forces | |
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| The Atomic Theory of Matter | |
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| Unresolved Questions of 1895 and New Horizons | |
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| Summary | |
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| Special Theory Of Relativity | |
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| The Need for Ether | |
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| The Michelson-Morley Experiment | |
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| Einstein's Postulates | |
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| The Lorentz Transformation | |
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| Time Dilation and Length Contraction | |
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| Addition of Velocities | |
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| Experimental Verification | |
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| Twin Paradox | |
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| Spacetime | |
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| Doppler Effect | |
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| Special Topic: Applications of the Doppler Effect | |
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| Relativistic Momentum | |
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| Relativistic Energy | |
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| Computations in Modern Physics | |
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| Electromagnetism and Relativity | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Experimental Basis Of Quantum Theory | |
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| Discovery of the X-Ray and the Electron | |
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| Determination of Electron Charge | |
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| Line Spectra | |
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| Special Topic: The Discovery of Helium | |
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| Quantization | |
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| Blackbody Radiation | |
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| Photoelectric Effect | |
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| X-Ray Production | |
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| Compton Effect | |
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| Pair Production and Annihilation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Structure Of The Atom | |
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| The Atomic Models of Thomson and Rutherford | |
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| Rutherford Scattering | |
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| Special Topic: Lord Rutherford of Nelson | |
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| The Classical Atomic Model | |
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| Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom | |
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| Successes and Failures of the Bohr Model | |
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| Characteristic X-Ray Spectra and Atomic Number | |
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| Atomic Excitation by Electrons | |
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| Summary | |
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| Wave Properties Of Matter And Quantum Mechanics I | |
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| X-Ray Scattering | |
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| Special Topic: Cavendish Laboratory | |
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| De Broglie Waves | |
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| Electron Scattering | |
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| Wave Motion | |
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| Waves or Particles? Uncertainty Principle | |
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| Probability, Wave Functions, and the Copenhagen Interpretation | |
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| Particle in a Box | |
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| Summary | |
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| Quantum Mechanics I | |
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| The Schr�dinger Wave Equation | |
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| Expectation Values | |
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| Infinite Square-Well Potential | |
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| Finite Square-Well Potential | |
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| Three-Dimensional Infinite Potential Well | |
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| Simple Harmonic Oscillator | |
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| Barriers and Tunneling | |
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| Special Topic: Scanning Probe Microscopes | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Hydrogen Atom | |
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| Application of the Schr�dinger Equation to the Hydrogen Atom | |
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| Solution of the Schr�dinger Equation for Hydrogen | |
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| Quantum Numbers | |
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| Magnetic Effects on Atomic Spectra--The Normal Zeeman Effect | |
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| Intrinsic Spin | |
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| Special Topic: Hydrogen and the 21-cm Line Transition | |
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| Energy Levels and Electron Possibilities | |
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| Summary | |
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| Atomic Physics | |
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| Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table | |
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| Total Angular Momentum | |
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| Anomalous Zeeman Effect | |
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| Summary | |
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| Statistical Physics | |
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| Historical Overview | |
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| Maxwell Velocity Distribution | |
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| Equipartition Theorem | |
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| Maxwell Speed Distribution | |
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| Classical and Quantum Statistics | |
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| Fermi-Dirac Statistics | |
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| Bose-Einstein Statistics | |
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| Special Topic: Superfluid �He | |
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| Summary | |
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| Molecules And Solids | |
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| Molecular Bonding and Spectra | |
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| Stimulated Emission and Lasers | |
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| Structural Properties of Solids | |
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| Thermal and Magnetic Properties of Solids | |
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| Superconductivity | |
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| Special Topic: Low-Temperature Methods | |
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| Applications of Superconductivity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Semiconductor Theory And Devices | |
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| Band Theory of Solids | |
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| Semiconductor Theory | |
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| Special Topic: The Quantum Hall Effect | |
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| Semiconductor Devices | |
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| Nanotechnology | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Atomic Nucleus | |
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| Discovery of the Neutron | |
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| Nuclear Properties | |
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| The Deuteron | |
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| Nuclear Forces | |
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| Nuclear Stability | |
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| Radioactive Decay | |
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| Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Decay | |
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| Special Topic: Neutrino Detection | |
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| Radioactive Nuclides | |
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| Special Topic: The Formation and Age of the Earth | |
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| Summary | |
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| Nuclear Interactions And Applications | |
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| Nuclear Reactions | |
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| Reaction Kinematics | |
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| Reaction Mechanisms | |
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| Fission | |
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| Fission Reactors | |
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| Special Topic: Early Fission Reactors | |
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| Fusion | |
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| Special Applications | |
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| Special Topic: The Search for New Elements | |
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| Summary | |
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| Elementary Particles | |
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| The Early Beginnings | |
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| The Fundamental Interactions | |
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| Classification of Elementary Particles | |
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| Conservation Laws and Symmetries | |
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| Quarks | |
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| The Families of Matter | |
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| Beyond the Standard Model | |
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| Accelerators | |
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| Special Topic: Experimental Ingenuity | |
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| Summary | |
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| General Relativity | |
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| Tenets of General Relativity | |
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| Tests of General Relativity | |
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| Gravitational Waves | |
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| Special Topic: Gravity Probe B | |
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| Black Holes | |
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