biography & history |
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topic |
interesting links |
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Week 1: |
Special Relativity |
biography of Faraday biography of Maxwell biography of Hertz biography of Lorentz, another Einstein, from AIP, Time Magazine's Person of the Century |
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| Special Relativity | |||
Week 3: |
Thermodynamics | story of
Marie Lavoisier biography of Count Rumford biography of James Joule conservation of energy and controversy |
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Week 4: |
Thermodynamics | ||
Week 5: |
Quantum Theory | ||
| Structure of the Atom | |||
Week 7: |
Wave properties of matter and Quantum Mechanics I | ||
Week 8: |
Quantum Mechanics II | ||
Week 9: |
The Hydrogen Atom | ||
Week 10: |
Atomic Physics | ||
| Statistical Physics | |||
Week 12: |
The Nucleus | ||
Week 13: |
Nuclear Interactions and Applications | ||
Week 14: |
Elementary Particles | ||
Week 15: |
Elementary Particles and Cosmology | ||
| catch-up! | |||
PHY215 fall2006