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LahoreUniversity of Management Sciences
PHY 104 - Modern Physics
Instructor
Room No.
Office Hours
Email
Telephone
Secretary/TA
TA Office Hours
Course URL (if any)
Spring 2014
Babar A. Qureshi
9-213A
TBA
[email protected]
Ext. 8361
TBA
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Course Basics
Credit Hours
Lecture(s)
Recitation (per week)
Lab (if any ) per week
Tutorial (per week)
Course Distribution
Core
Elective
Open for Student Category
Closed for Student Category
3
Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week
Nbr of Rec (s) Per
Week
Nbr of Session(s) Per
Week
Nbr of Tut(s) Per
Week
3
1
Duration
Duration
75 + 75 + 50 min
60 min
Duration
1 ( Optional extra
help sessions)
Duration
All SSE majors
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is intended to be a first introduction to quantum phenomena in nature. Quatum Mechanics forms the basis of our description of
nature at small scales and a clear understanding of it is required to understand phenomena ranging from atoms and chemical bonding to
semiconductors and nuclear physics. We will present a concise and comprehensive picture of quantum theory with emphasis on concept building.
The concepts will be organized around the idea of wave particle duality and its consequences. Numerous applications to real world phenomena
will be discussed throughout the course. The course also has a component that discusses the application of statistical ideas in physics and how it
gives rise to our common understanding of phenomena involving heat and temperature in the form of laws of thermodynamics including their
applications.
COURSE PREREQUISITE(S)
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
To introduce the students to the concepts that form the basis of quantum physics including wave particle duality, Heisenberg’s
uncertainty principle etc.
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To show how these ideas work in a host of microscopic phenomena
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To introduce the students to mathematical formulation of quantum physics in the form of wave functions and Schroedinger’s
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equation etc.
To introduce various laws that govern the heat flow and macroscopic concepts of work and their statistical microscopic basis
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Learning Outcomes
Should be able to accurately
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Grading Breakup and Policy
Assignment(s):
Home Work: 20%
Quiz(s): 30%
Attendance: %
Midterm Examination: 25%
Project:
Final Examination: 25%
I reserve the right to modify the grading breakup between quizzes and home works depending on level of plagiarism and administrative issues.
Examination Detail
Midterm
Exam
Yes/No: Yes
Combine Separate: Separate
Duration: In class
Preferred Date: during midterm week
Exam Specifications: Closed book / Closed notes
Final Exam
Yes/No: Yes
Combine Separate: Separate
Duration: 4 hours
Exam Specifications: Closed book / Closed notes
COURSE OVERVIEW
Module
1
Topics
Wave and particle nature of light, double slit
experiment, properties of waves,
Superposition principle, photoelectric and
Compton effect
Recommended
Readings
Objectives/
Application
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Atoms, Bohr’s Model, Light from atoms
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Matter Waves, de Broglie hypothesis, Waves in
atoms, Double slit with electrons, Electron
microscopes
Superposition Principle, Fourier transforms,
Meaning of duality, Born’s interpretation,
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
Schroedinger equation, Tunneling phenomena,
Bound states, Electrons trapped in boxes,
Quantum Mechanics in Three Dimensions,
Hydrogen atom, Angular momentum
Spin, Many body system and Fermi and Bose
Statistics
Concept of Heat and Temperature, Laws of
Thermodynamics, Statistical basis of
thermodynamics
Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings
“Modern Physics” by Serway, Moses and Moyer
“An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics” by Griffiths
“ An Introduction to Thermal Physics” by Schroeder