Syllabus:  Physics 390      Winter 2000
Introduction to Modern Physics

Time: 12:10-1:00 pm    Monday & Wednesday & Friday
Location: 231 W Hall
Instructor: Prof. Wolfgang Lorenzon
Office: 330 W Hall
Telephone: (64)7-6825
Office Hours: Tuesday, 3-5 pm or by appointment (330 W Hall)
E-mail address: lorenzon@umich.edu
GSI: Xiaogang Bai
E-mail address: xgbai@umich.edu

 

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This course is a quantitative introduction to modern physics and includes a review of electromagnetic waves, the relationship of particles and waves, the Schr�dinger equation applied to barrier problems, atomic structure and the interpretation of quantum numbers, the exclusion principle and its applications, structure of solids. This course includes a survey of the topics and techniques in several subfields of physics, including Solid State, Atomic, Nuclear, and Particle Physics. The class will meet as a lecture group. Applications of the principles will be consideredin the lecture section on a regular basis.

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