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PHYS 242 Relativity and Quanta Units: 3.00
Evidence for relativistic effects. Kinematics and dynamics in special relativity, space-time diagrams, applications. Waves and the wave nature of light and matter. Evidence for quanta, spectra, Bohr atom. Introduction to the Schrödinger equation.
Requirements: Prerequisite PHYS 104/6.0 or PHYS 106/6.0.
Recommended Minimum grade of C in PHYS 104/6.0 or PHYS 106/6.0.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the wave equation and the propagation of harmonic waves, including electromagnetic radiation.
- Understand and apply basic transformations between different reference frames in Special Relativity.
- Draw and read spacetime diagrams.
- Model collisions between relativistic particles.
- Describe the key phenomena of thermal radiation and determine its properties.
- Understand the wave and particle nature of matter and light and its implications.
- Understand the Schrödinger equation and the connection between the quantum mechanical description of nature and non-intuitive phenomena such as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and quantum tunneling.