Special Relativity:
The Michelson-Morley Experiment; Einstein’s Postulates; The Lorentz
Transformation; Time Dilation and Length Contraction; Velocity Addition;
Twin Paradox; Spacetime; Doppler Effect; Relativistic Momentum;
Relativistic Energy.

Thermodynamics 1:
Temperature and Thermometers; Temperature Scales: Fahrenheit, Celsius,
Kelvin; Thermal Expansion of Solids and Liquids; Ideal gas; Gas Laws:
Boyle-Mariotte, Gay-Lussac, Charles Laws; Universal Gas Law; The Ideal
Gas; Regnault constant; Boltzmann constant; Kinetic Theory of Gases;
The Micro-Macro Connection: Temperature and RMS Speed; The Maxwell-
Boltzmann Distribution of Molecular Speeds.

Thermodynamics 2:
Heat, Heat Capacity; Specific Heat, Molar Heat. Degree of Freedom of
Molecules; Phase Changes; Latent Heats; The Three Ways of Heat
Tansfers: Conduction, Convection, Radiation; Black Body Radiation;
Wien's displacement Law; Stefan-Boltzmann Law, the Development of the
Energy Quantum.

Thermodynamics 3:
The Laws of Thermodynamics; 1st: The Equivalence of Work and Heat;
2nd: The Direction of Thermodynamic Processes; Isothermal, Isochoric,
Isobaric, Adiabatic i.e. Iso-Entropic Processes; p-V diagrams; Heat
Engines; Heat Pumps, Refrigerators; Efficiency and Coefficients of
Performance; Entropy and Reduced Heat; The Thermodynamics of Life on
Earth.

Phenomenological Quantum Physics:
X-rays and Cathode Rays; the discovery of the Electron; Determination
of the Electron Charge; Optical Spectra; Blackbody Radiation;
the Photoelectric Effect; X-Ray Production; the Compton Effect; Pair
Production and Annihilation.

The Structure of the Atom:
The Atomic Models of Thomson and Rutherford; the Rutherford Scattering
Experiment; the Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom; Successes and Failures
of the Bohr Model; Characteristic X-Ray Spectra and Atomic Number.

Wave Properties of Matter:
X-Ray Scattering; de Broglie Waves; Electron Scattering; Wave Motion;
Wave or Particle? Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle; Probability, Wave
Functions, and the Copenhagen Interpretation.

Quantum Mechanics:
The Schrodinger Equation; Expectation Values; Infinite and Finite
Square-Well Potential; Three-Dimensional Infinite-Potential Well;
Simple Harmonic Oscillator; Tunneling.

The Hydrogen Atom:
Application of the Schrodinger Equation to the Hydrogen Atom; Solution
of the Schrodinger Equation for Hydrogen; Quantum Numbers; Magnetic
Effects on Atomic Spectra and The Normal Zeeman Effect; Energy Levels
and Electron Probabilities.

Atomic Physics:
Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table; Total Angular Momentum;
Single-Electron and Many-Electron Notation; LS Coupling; jj Coupling;
Anomalous Zeeman Effect.

The Atomic Nucleus:
Nuclear Properties; Nuclear Age: the Discovery of the Neutron; Nuclear
Forces; Nuclear Stability; Radioactive Decay: Alpha, Beta and Gamma
Decay;

Nuclear Interactions and Applications:
Nuclear Reactions and Reaction Mechanisms; Nuclear Fission; Nuclear
Reactors, Energy Production by Nuclear Reactors; Nuclear Weapons;
Nuclear Fusion; Special Applications of Nuclear Physics.