PHY 1301

Electromagnetism: Coulomb’s law, Gauss’ Law, Ohm’s Law, Ampere’s Law, Maxwell’s equations, magnetic materials, corpuscular & wave properties of light. Special Theory of Relativity, Length Contraction & Time Dilation, Mass-Energy Relation, Photo Electric Effect, Quantum Theory, X-rays and X-ray Diffraction, Compton Effect, Dual Nature of Matter & Radiation, Atomic Structure, Nuclear Dimensions, Electron Orbits, Atomic Spectra, Bohr Atom, Radioactive Decay, half-life, (and Rays, Isotopes, Nuclear Binding Energy), Fundamentals of Solid State Physics, Lasers, Holography.