Modern Physics (Fall 2023)

Syllabus - Lecture Notes: Part I - Part II

Lecture Slides

Lecture I (August 29) - Lecture II (August 31) - Lecture III (September 7) - Lecture IV (September 14) - Lecture V (September 21) - Lecture VI (September 28) - Lecture VII (October 5) - Lecture VIII (October 12) - Lecture IX (October 19) - Lecture X (October 26) - Lecture XI (November 2) - Lecture XII (November 9) - Lecture XIII (November 16) -

Midterm exams: November 7th and December 7th
Final exam: December 19th (11:30 am - 1:30 pm)
Recommended textbooks: W. Rindler, "Introduction to Special Relativity," (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991) ISBN 0-19-853952-5
K. Krane, "Modern Physics" (John Wiley & Sons, 2012) ISBN 978-1-118-06114-5

Complementary Material for Lecture IV

Feynman Lectures: see 13.6 The relativity of magnetic and electric fields -- and -- 26 Lorentz transformations of the fields --

Complementary Material for Lecture VIII

See Secs. 1.1 to 1.5 of -- Rybicki and Lightman "Radiative Processes in Astrophysics" --

Complementary Exercises (Group Problems by Jordan Gerton @ University of Utah)

Exercise 5.6 -- Group Problems 1 -- Group Problems 2 -- Group Problems 3 -- Group Problems 4 -- Group Problems 5 -- Group Problems 6 -- Group Problems 7 -- Group Problems 8 -- Group Problems 9 -- Group Problems 10 -- Group Problems 11 -- Group Problems 12 -- Group Problems 13 -- Group Problems 14 -- Group Problems 15 -- Group Problems 16 -- Group Problems 17 -- Group Problems 18 -- Group Problems 19 -- Group Problems 20 -- Group Problems 21 -- Group Problems 22 -- Group Problems 23 -- Group Problems 24 -- Group Problems 25 -- Group Problems 26 -- Group Problems 27 -- Group Problems 28 -- Group Problems 29 -- Group Problems 30 -- Group Problems 31 -- Group Problems 32 -- Group Problems 33 -- Group Problems 34 -- Group Problems 35 -- Group Problems 36 --