Modern Physics Crash Course

This Crash Course Outline is Based on The University Physics with Modern Physics Textbook

Young, Hugh D., Roger A. Freedman, Todd R. Sandin, and A. Lewis Ford. University Physics with Modern Physics. 15th ed. Pearson, 2019.

37. Relativity
37.1 Invariance of Physical Laws
37.2 Relativity of Simultaneity
37.3 Relativity of Time Intervals
37.4 Relativity of Length
37.5 The Lorentz Transformations
37.6 The Doppler Effect for Electromagnetic Waves
37.7 Relativistic Momentum
37.8 Relativistic Work and Energy
37.9 Newtonian Mechanics and Relativity


38. Photons: Light Waves Behaving as Particles
38.1 Light Absorbed as Photons: The Photoelectric Effect
38.2 Light Emitted as Photons: X-Ray Production
38.3 Light Scattered as Photons: Compton Scattering and Pair Production
38.4 Wave–Particle Duality, Probability, and Uncertainty


39. Particles Behaving as Waves
39.1 Electron Waves
39.2 The Nuclear Atom and Atomic Spectra
39.3 Energy Levels and the Bohr Model of the Atom
39.4 The Laser
39.5 Continuous Spectra
39.6 The Uncertainty Principle Revisited


40. Quantum Mechanics I: Wave Functions
40.1 Wave Functions and the One-Dimensional Schrödinger Equation
40.2 Particle in a Box
40.3 Potential Wells
40.4 Potential Barriers and Tunneling
40.5 The Harmonic Oscillator
40.6 Measurement in Quantum Mechanics


41. Quantum Mechanics II: Atomic Structure
41.1 The Schrödinger Equation in Three Dimensions
41.2 Particle in a Three-Dimensional Box
41.3 The Hydrogen Atom
41.4 The Zeeman Effect
41.5 Electron Spin
41.6 Many-Electron Atoms and the Exclusion Principle
41.7 X-Ray Spectra
41.8 Quantum Entanglement


42. Molecules and Condensed Matter
42.1 Types of Molecular Bonds
42.2 Molecular Spectra
42.3 Structure of Solids
42.4 Energy Bands
42.5 Free-Electron Model of Metals
42.6 Semiconductors
42.7 Semiconductor Devices
42.8 Superconductivity


43. Nuclear Physics
43.1 Properties of Nuclei
43.2 Nuclear Binding and Nuclear Structure
43.3 Nuclear Stability and Radioactivity
43.4 Activities and Half-Lives
43.5 Biological Effects of Radiation
43.6 Nuclear Reactions
43.7 Nuclear Fission
43.8 Nuclear Fusion


44. Particle Physics and Cosmology
44.1 Fundamental Particles—A History
44.2 Particle Accelerators and Detectors
44.3 Particles and Interactions
44.4 Quarks and Gluons
44.5 The Standard Model and Beyond
44.6 The Expanding Universe
44.7 The Beginning of Time

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