Ph 311 Introduction to Modern Physics

The revolution in the concepts of physics in the 20th century. Radioactivity, quanta, black-body radiation, relativity. Bohr's theory of the atom. Introduction to quantum mechanics. Atomic, molecular spectroscopy, periodic table. Introduction to nuclear and solid state physics, and elementary particles. This is the first course in a sequence of two: Ph 311 and Ph 312. Recommended prerequisites: Ph 203, or Ph 213 and Mth 252.