PHYS 252 Lecture Notes


Geometrical Optics

Wave Optics

A Peek Outside of the Newtonian Box

How Big is an Atom

The Structure of the Atom

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Waves and Particles Behaving Badly I

Between the Lectures I: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Waves and Particles Behaving Badly II

Between the Lectures II: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Really, How Big is the Nucleus, and Why Does That Not Seem Right?

The Action and Some Possibly Interesting Examples

Between the Lectures III: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

The Bohr Model of Hydrogen

Quantum Effects Seen Macroscopically

Wave Mechanics

Between the Lectures IIII: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Penetration and Tunneling

The Hydrogen Atom

The Nucleus

Particle Physics