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| Relativity I | |
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| Special Relativity | |
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| The Principle of Relativity | |
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| The Michelson-Morley Experiment | |
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| Postulates of Special Relativity | |
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| Consequences of Special Relativity | |
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| The Lorentz Transformation | |
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| Spacetime and Causality | |
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| Summary | |
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| Relativity II | |
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| Relativistic Momentum and Relativistic Form of Newton''s Laws | |
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| Relativistic Energy | |
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| Mass as a Measure of Energy | |
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| Conservation of Relativistic Momentum, Mass, and Energy | |
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| General Relativity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Web Essay 1: The Renaissance of General Relativity | |
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| The Quantum Theory Of Light | |
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| Hertz''s Experiments-Light as an Electromagnetic Wave | |
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| Blackbody Radiation | |
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| The Rayleigh-Jeans Law and Planck''s Law (Online) | |
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| Light Quantization and the Photoelectric Effect | |
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| The Compton Effect and X-Rays | |
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| Particle-Wave Complementarity | |
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| Does Gravity Affect Light? (Optional) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Web Appendix 1: Calculation of the Number of Modes of Waves in a Cavity | |
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| The Particle Nature Of Matter | |
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| The Atomic Nature of Matter | |
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| The Composition of Atoms | |
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| The Bohr Atom | |
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| Bohr''s Correspondence Principle, or Why is Angular Momentum Quantized? Direct Confirmation of Atomic Energy Levels: The Franck-Hertz Experiment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Matter Waves | |
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| The Pilot Waves of de Broglie | |
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| The Davisson-Germer Experiment | |
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| TEM and SEM microscopes | |
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| Wave Groups and Dispersion | |
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| Fourier Integrals (Optional) | |
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| The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle | |
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| If Electrons Are Waves, What''s Waving? The Wave-Particle Duality | |
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| A Final Note | |
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| Summary | |
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| Quantum Mechanics In One Dimension | |
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| The Born Interpretation | |
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| Wavefunction for a Free Particle | |
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| Wavefunctions in the Presence of Forces | |
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| The Particle in a Box | |
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| CCD''s | |
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| The Finite Square Well (Optional) | |
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| The Quantum Oscillator | |
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| Expectation Values | |
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| Observables and Operators | |
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| Summary | |
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| Tunneling Phenomena | |
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| The Square Barrier | |
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| Barrier Penetration: Some Applications | |
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| Summary | |
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| Essay: The Scanning Tunneling Microscope | |
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| Quantum Mechanics In Three Dimensions | |
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| Particle in a Three-Dimensional Box | |
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| Central Forces and Angular Momentum | |
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| Space Quantization | |
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| Quantization of Angular Momentum and Energy (Optional) | |
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| Atomic Hydrogen and Hydrogen-like Ions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Atomic Structure | |
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| Orbital Magnetism and the Normal Zeeman Effect | |
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| The Spinning Electron | |
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| The Spin-Orbit Interaction and Other Magnetic Effects | |
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| Exchange Symmetry and the Exclusion Principle | |
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| Electron Interactions and Screening Effects (Optional) | |
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| The Periodic Table | |
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| X-Ray Spectra and Moseley''s Law | |
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| Summary | |
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| Statistical Physics | |
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| The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution | |
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| Quantum Statistics, Indistinguishability, and the Pauli Exclusion Principle | |
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| Applications of Bose-Einstein Statistics | |
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| An Application of Fermi-Dirac Statistics: The Free-Electron Gas Theory of Metals | |
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| Summary | |
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| Essay: Laser Manipulation of Atoms | |
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| Molecular Structure | |
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| Bonding Mechanisms: A Survey | |
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| Molecular Rotation and Vibration | |
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| Molecular Spectra | |
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| Electron Sharing and the Covalent Bond | |
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| Bonding in Complex Molecules (Optional) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Web Appendix 2: Overlap Integrals of Atomic Wavefunctions | |
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| The Solid State | |
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| Bonding in Solids | |
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| Classical Free-Electron Model of Metals | |
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| Quantum Theory of Metals | |
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| Band Theory of Solids | |
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| Semiconductor Devices | |
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| Lasers | |
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| Superconductivity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Web Essay 2: The Invention of the Laser | |
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| Web Essay 3: Photovoltaic Conversion | |
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| Nuclear Structure | |
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| Some Properties of Nuclei | |
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| Binding Energy and Nuclear Forces | |
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| Nuclear Models | |
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| Radioactivity | |
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| Decay Processes | |
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| Natural Radioactivity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Nuclear Physics Applications | |
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| Nuclear Reactions | |
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| Reaction Cross Section | |
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| Interactions Involving Neutrons | |
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| Nuclear Fission | |
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| Nuclear Reactors | |
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| Nuclear Fusion | |
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| Recent Fusion Energy Developments | |
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| Interaction of Particles with Matter | |
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| Radiation Damage in Matter | |
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| Radiation Detectors | |
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| Summary | |
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| Elementary Particles | |
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| The Fundamental Forces in Nature | |
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| Positrons and Other Antiparticles | |
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| Mesons and the Beginning of Particle Physics | |
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| Classification of Particles | |
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| Conservation Laws | |
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| Strange Particles and Strangeness | |
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| Neutrino Oscillations | |
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| How Are Elementary Particles Produced and Particle Prop | |