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COURSE EXPECTATIONS
COURSE CODE: PHYS-2007 COURSE NAME: OPTICS AND INTRODUCTION TO
MODERN PHYSICS
FACULTY MEMBER: WENFENG CHEN
2012-13
2013-14
CALENDAR COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed for students in Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Science and Technology programs.
It mainly focuses on fundamental concepts and physical laws in geometric optics and physical optics and an
introduction to modern physics. Geometric optics is based on light ray approximation, and it covers Huygens’s
principle and three fundamental laws in geometric optics describing reflection and refraction, image formation
by mirror and lenses; Physical optics is based on fact that light is electromagnetic wave. It covers interference,
diffraction and polarization of light; Topics of modern physics include theory of special relativity, quantum
physics, atomic and molecular physics, nuclear physics, particle physics and cosmology
EXPECTATIONS:
BY THE END OF THE COURSE STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO:
1. DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF LIGHT AND PRINCIPLES OF
GEOMETRICAL OPTICS BY EXPOUNDING WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY OF LIGHT AND
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EXPLAINING THE RATIONAL OF LIGHT RAY APPROXIMATION AND STRAIGHT LINE
PROPAGATION ASSUMPTION, APPLYING HUYGENS’S PRINCIPLE TO A DERIVATION OF THE
LAW OF REFLECTION AND SNELL’S LAW OF REFRACTION OF LIGHT, AND USING THESE LAWS
TO FIND ANGLE OF REFLECTION, ANGLE OF REFRACTION, INDEX OF REFRACTION OF A
CERTAIN MEDIUM AND PROPAGATION SPEED OF LIGHT IN THE MEDIUM, USING THE
DEPENDENCE OF REFLECTION INDEX ON WAVELENGTH TO EXPLAIN DISPERSION OF
LIGHT AND TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION OF LIGHT TO EXPOUND LIGHT TRANSMISSION IN
OPTICAL FIBER
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE APPLICATION OF GEOMETRIC OPTICS IN IMAGE
FORMATION AND DESIGNING OPTICAL INSTRUMENT BY IDENTIFYING STRUCTURES OF
SPHERICAL MIRRORS, AND THEN LENSES INCLUDING PRINCIPAL AXES AND FOCAL POINTS,
SKETCHING RAY DIAGRAMS FOR FLAT MIRRORS, CONCAVE MIRRORS CONVEX MIRRORS, THIN
CONVERGING LENSES, AND THIN DIVERGING LENSES, USING MIRROR EQUATIONS FOR
SPHERICAL MIRRORS TO FIND LOCATION, SIZE AND MAGNIFICATION OF IMAGES FORMED BY
EITHER REFLECTION OR REFRACTION, AND USING THIN LENS EQUATION TO CALCULATE
LOCATION, SIZE AND MAGNIFICATION OF IMAGES FORMED BY A THIN LENS OR THE
COMBINATION OF A NUMBER OF THIN LENSES, EXPLAINING THE REASONS OF LENS
ABERRATIONS IN IMAGE FORMATION, IDENTIFYING OPTICAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN EYE
AND EXPOUNDING OPTICAL PRINCIPLES OF SOME TYPICAL INSTRUMENTS INCLUDING
PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA, SIMPLE MAGNIFIER, COMPOUNDED MICROSCOPE AND TELESCOPE
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES AND TECHNOLOGICAL
APPLICATIONS OF LIGHT WAVE INTERFERENCE BY EXPLAINING THE CONDITIONS FOR
LIGHT INTERFERENCE TO HAPPEN AND IDENTIFYING INTERFERENCE PATTERNS IN
YOUNG’S DOUBLE-SLIT EXPERIMENT, CALCULATING THE SLIT SEPARATIONS FOR ACHIEVING
CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCES OF LIGHT WITH A CERTAIN
WAVELENGTH AND DETERMINING LOCATIONS OF BRIGHT AND DARK FRINGES AS WELL AS
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DISTANCE BETWEEN ADJACENT BRIGHT OR DARK FRINGES, COMPUTING LIGHT INTENSITY
DISTRIBUTION OF THE DOUBLE-SLIT INTERFERENCE PATTERN, EXPLAINING THE
MECHANISM FOR LIGHT INTERFERENCE IN THIN FILMS AND THE FORMATION OF
NEWTON’S RING AND DETERMINING THE THICKNESS OF A THIN FILM FROM FRINGE
PATTERN, EXPOUNDING THE WORKING PRINCIPLE OF THE MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER
AND ITS USE IN MEASURING SPEED OF LIGHT
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES AND TECHNOLOGICAL
APPLICATION OF DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT BY EXPOUNDING PHYSICAL PHENOMENA OF
DIFFRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF DIFFRACTION,
IDENTIFYING DIFFRACTION
PATTERNS OF FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION PATTERNS FROM NARROW SLITS, CIRCULAR
APERTURES AND DIFFRACTION GRATINGS, CALCULATING INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS OF
DIFFRACTION PATTERNS IN THE CASES OF SINGLE-SLIT AND DOUBLE SLIT, USING
RAYLEIGH’S CRITERION TO COMPUTE RESOLUTIONS OF HUMAN EYE AND OF SOME OPTICAL
INSTRUMENTS SUCH AS TELESCOPE, CAMERA AND MICROSCOPE, EXPLAINING SOME
TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATION OF DIFFRACTION GRATINGS INCLUDING DIFFRACTION
GRATING SPECTROMETER, GRATING LIGHT VALVE AND ESPECIALLY, HOLOGRAPHY.
FURTHER, DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES AND
TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATION OF DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT BY EXPLAINING PHYSICAL
PHENOMENA CAUSED BY POLARIZED LIGHT, EXPOUNDING PHYSICAL FEATURES OF
LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT, PARTIALLY POLARIZED LIGHT, CIRCULARLY POLARIZED
LIGHT AND ELLIPTICALLY POLARIZED LIGHT, DESCRIBING PHYSICAL MECHANISMS OF
PRODUCING POLARIZED LIGHT INCLUDING SELECTIVE ABSORPTION, REFLECTION, DOUBLE
REFRACTION AND SCATTERING, USING MALUS’S LAW TO CALCULATE THE INTENSITY OF
POLARIZED LIGHT PRODUCED BY SELECTIVE ABSORPTION AND BREWSTER’S LAW TO FIND
BREWSTER’S ANGLE FOR PRODUCING POLARIZED LIGHT THROUGH REFLECTION
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, PHYSICAL
POSTULATES
AND
IMPLICATIONS,
MATHEMATICAL
FORMULATION,
PHYSICAL
CONSEQUENCES AND SIGNIFICANCES OF EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY BY
FIRST EXPOUNDING THE CELEBRATED RESULT OF THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT
THAT LIGHT SPEED HAS SAME VALUE IN ALL INERTIAL FRAMES AND EXPLAINING THE
INVALIDITY OF GALILEO’S RELATIVITY PRINCIPLE IN DESCRIBING THE MOTION OF AN
OBJECT MOVING WITH SPEED NEAR SPEED OF LIGHT, DESCRIBING TWO POSTULATES OF
EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY, USING THE MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION OF
THEORY OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY – THE LORENTZ COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION
EQUATIONS BETWEEN TWO INERTIAL FRAMES TO EXPLAIN SOME TYPICAL RELATIVISTIC
PHENOMENA INCLUDING LENGTH CONTRACTION, TIME DILATION AND ITS INTRIGUING
CONSEQUENCE--TWIN PARADOX, DERIVING THE LORENTZ VELOCITY TRANSFORMATION
EQUATIONS
FROM LORENTZ COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS, CALCULATING
RELATIVISTIC LINEAR MOMENTUM AND RELATIVISTIC ENERGY, AND EXTRACTING OUT
MASS-ENERGY RELATION, STARTING FROM THE NUMERICAL EQUALITY OF INERTIAL MASS
AND GRAVITATIONAL MASS TO EXPLAIN THE BASIC IDEA OF EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF
GENERAL RELATIVITY AS A CORRECT THEORY DESCRIBING GRAVITY AND EXPOUNDING A
NUMBER OF EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATIONS
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT,
QUANTUM PHYSICAL PHENOMENA OF QUANTUM PHYSICS BY EXPOUNDING THE FAILURE OF
CLASSICAL RAYLEIGH-JEANS LAW IN EXPLAINING THE RADIATED ENERGY DISTRIBUTION OF
BLACKBODY RADIATION AT SHORT WAVELENGTHS AND THE SUCCESS OF PLANCK’S
HYPOTHESIS OF ENERGY QUANTA IN EXPLAINING BLACKBODY RADIATION, DESCRIBING
THE PHYSICAL PHENOMENA OF PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT, THE INVALIDITY OF CLASSICAL
OPTICS IN EXPLAINING PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECTS AND THE SUCCESSFUL EXPLANATION BY
EINSTEIN USING THE NOTION OF LIGHT QUANTA OR PHOTON, DESCRIBING THE COMPTON
EFFECT, THE FAILURE OF CLASSICAL WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT IN EXPLAINING COMPTON
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SCATTERING OF X-RAY FROM ELECTRONS, AND THE SUCCESS OF THEORETICAL
DESCRIPTION TO COMPTON EFFECT WITH LIGHT QUANTA AND EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF
SPECIAL RELATIVITY, EXPOUNDING DE BROGLIE’S POSTULATE ON WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY
FOR ALL MATERIAL PARTICLES AS A GENERALIZATION OF LIGHT AND THE VERIFICATION BY
DAVISSON-GERMER EXPERIMENT, AND FURTHER CALCULATING WAVELENGTH AND
FREQUENCY OF A PARTICLE WHEN VIEWED AS A MATTER WAVE, USING QUANTUM PARTICLE
MODEL TO EXPLAIN THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPLEMENTARITY, CONSIDERING QUANTUM
PARTICLE AS A WAVE PARTICLE, CALCULATING GROUP SPEED OF A WAVE PACKET AND PHASE
SPEED OF A WAVE IN A WAVE PACKET, EXPLAINING THE PHYSICAL IMPLICATION AND
RATIONAL OF THE HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE IN MEASURING POSITION AND
SPEED (OR ENERGY AND TIME INTERVAL) SIMULTANEOUSLY OF A PARTICLE BASED ON
WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY AND COMPUTING THE MINIMUM UNCERTAINTY IN DETERMINING
POSITION OR SPEED
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES, MATHEMATICAL
FORMULATION AND APPLICATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS IN DESCRIBING QUANTUM
SYSTEM BY EXPLAINING PHYSICAL RATIONAL FOR THE POSTULATES OF QUANTUM
MECHANICS INCLUDING PROBABILITY AMPLITUDE INTERPRETATION OF WAVE FUNCTION,
PHYSICAL QUANTITIES AS HERMITIAN OPERATORS AND THE MEASURED VALUES AS
EXPECTATION VALUE,
SOLVING SOME SIMPLE ONE-DIMENSIONAL SCHRODINGER
EQUATIONS SUCH AS A PARTICLE IN AN INFINITELY DEEP POTENTIAL WELL, A POTENTIAL
WELL OF FINITE HEIGHT AND SIMPLE HARMONIC SYSTEM TO SHOW QUANTUM EFFECTS
INCLUDING QUANTIZED VALUES OF ENERGY AND MOMENTUM AND QUANTUM TUNNELING
THROUGH A CLASSICALLY FORBIDDEN POTENTIAL ENERGY BARRIER, AND DISCUSSING
APPLICATION OF QUANTUM TUNNELING IN MODERN TECHNOLOGY AND APPARATUS SUCH
AS ALPHA PARTICLE DECAY, NUCLEAR FUSION, SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES AND
RESONANT TUNNELING DEVICES
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT, PHYSICAL
PHENOMENA AND PRINCIPLES AND TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATION OF ATOMIC PHYSICS BY
EXPOUNDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ATOM MODEL FROM RUTHERFORD’S SCATTERING
EXPERIMENT, DESCRIBING POSTULATES OF BOHR’S MODEL OF HYDROGEN ATOM, ITS
TRIUMPH IN EXPLAINING SPECTRA OF HYDROGEN ATOM AND FAILURE IN DEPICTING FINE
STRUCTURE OF SPECTROSCOPY, AND EMPHASIZING THE CORRECT THEORY IS QUANTUM
MECHANICAL MODEL OF HYDROGEN ATOM DESCRIBED BY SCHRODINGER’S EQUATION,
EXPLAINING PHYSICAL MEANINGS OF PRINCIPAL QUANTUM NUMBER IN REPRESENTING
ENERGY LEVEL,
ORBITAL QUANTUM NUMBER IN EVALUATING ORBITAL ANGULAR
MOMENTUM, ORBITAL MAGNETIC QUANTUM NUMBERS IN SPECIFYING Z-COMPONENT OF
ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF HYDROGEN ATOM AS WELL AS SHELL AND SUBSHELL
SYMBOLS OF LABELING QUANTUM STATES, EXPOUNDING THE PHYSICAL NECESSITY OF
INTRODUCING ELECTRON SPIN TO EXPLAIN DOUBLET IN ATOMIC SPECTRA AND
VERIFICATION BY THE STERN-GERLACH EXPERIMENT,
USING PAULI’S EXCLUSION
PRINCIPLE TO EXPLAIN NO TWO ELECTRONS IN THE SAME ATOM CAN HAVE IDENTICAL
QUANTUM NUMBERS AND HUND’S RULE TO FIGURE OUT THE ORDER OF FILING ELECTRONS
IN THE CASE OF DEGENERATE ENERGY LEVELS, EXPLAINING PHYSICS PRINCIPLE OF
CONSTRUCTING PERIODIC TABLE OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS, DESCRIBING THE PHYSICAL
IMPLICATIONS OF STIMULATED ABSORPTION,
THE OCCURRENCE OF SPONTANEOUS
EMISSION AND SIMULATED EMISSION IN AN ATOM, AND POPULATION INVERSION AS A
CONDITION OF PRODUCING LASER
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE STRUCTURES AND PHYSICAL FEATURES OF
MOLECULES, FORMATION OF SOLIDS FROM ATOMS AND CLASSIFICATION OF MATERIALS IN
TERMS OF ELECTRIC CONDUCTION BY DESCRIBING THE POTENTIAL ENERGY FUNCTION
PROVIDING A BONDING MECHANISM IN A MOLECULE AND VARIOUS BONDING MECHANISMS
INCLUDING IONIC BOUNDING, COVALENT BONDING , VAN DER WALLS BONDING AND
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HYDROGEN BOUNDING, CALCULATING ROTATIONAL ENERGY AROUND ITS CENTER OF MASS
AND VIBRATIONAL ENERGY WITH THE MODEL OF SIMPLE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR AND
USING THESE TWO ENERGIES TO CALCULATE MOLECULAR SPECTRA, DESCRIBING PHYSICAL
CHARACTERISTICS OF SOME TYPICAL MECHANISMS OF BONDING ATOMS TO FORM SOLIDS
AND STRUCTURE OF THE SOLIDS INCLUDING IONIC SOLIDS, COVALENT SOLIDS AND
METALLIC SOLIDS, USING THE FERMI-DIRAC DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION OF DESCRIBING
THE PROBABILITY THAT AN ELECTRON OF A CERTAIN ENERGY LIES IN A QUANTUM STATE
TO REFORMULATE FREE-ELECTRON THEORY OF METALS, CALCULATING FERMI ENERGY
AND EMPHASIZING THE ADVANTAGE IN PREDICTING ELECTRICAL AND THERMAL
CONDUCTIVITIES OVER CLASSICAL MODEL, EXPOUNDING ENERGY BAND THEORY OF SOLIDS
AND CLASSIFICATION OF MATERIALS BASED ON ENERGY BANDS AS METALS, INSULATOR AND
SEMICONDUCTORS, DESCRIBING WORKING PRINCIPLES OF VARIOUS SEMICONDUCTOR
DEVICES IN ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING JUNCTION DIODE, TRANSISTOR AND
INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND EXPOUNDING THE BCS THEORY FOR LOW-TEMPERATURE
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPTS, PHYSICAL FEATURES AND
PHENOMENA AND ESPECIALLY, TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATION OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS BY
IDENTIFYING A NUCLEUS IN TERMS OF CHARGE, MASS, SIZE, ATOMIC NUMBER, NEUTRON
NUMBER, MASS NUMBER, DESCRIBING THE FEATURES OF NUCLEAR FORCES THAT BIND
PROTONS AND NEUTRONS, CALCULATING NUCLEAR BINDING ENERGY WITH THE FORMULA
DERIVED FROM THE LAW OF ENERGY CONSERVATION AND EINSTEIN’S MASS-ENERGY
RELATION, EXPOUNDING THE FEATURES OF THE LIQUID-DROP MODEL AND USING IT
EXPLAIN THE MECHANISM FOR NUCLEAR BINDING ENERGY, DESCRIBING THE FEATURES OF
THE SHELL MODEL, USING IT TO EXPLAIN NEW FEATURES OF BINDING ENERGY AND
EMPHASIZING ITS IMPROVEMENTS OVER THE LIQUID-DROP MODEL, EXPLAINING THE
ORIGIN OF NUCLEAR RADIOACTIVITY CAUSED BY DECAY AND CALCULATING THE DECAY
RATE AND HALF-LIFE OF A UNSTABLE NUCLEUS, DESCRIBING THREE DECAY PROCESSES
INCLUDING ALPHA DECAY, BETA DECAY AND GAMMA DECAY, EXPOUNDING THE NOTIONS
OF NUCLEAR SPIN AND SPIN MAGNETIC MOMENT AND THE PHENOMENON OF NUCLEAR
MAGNETIC RESONANCE AND ITS IMPORTANT APPLICATION IN MEDICAL SCIENCE --MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, EXPLAINING GENERAL FEATURES OF NUCLEAR
REACTIONS AND COMPUTING REACTION ENERGY, DESCRIBING PHYSICAL PROCESSES OF
TWO MEANS OF DERIVING NUCLEAR ENERGY FROM NUCLEAR REACTION ---NUCLEAR
FISSION AND FUSION, EXPOUNDING WORKING PRINCIPLES AND DESIGNING OF BOTH
FISSION REACTOR AND FUSION REACTOR, THE CONTROL OF POWER LEVEL AND WASTE
DISPOSAL IN FISSION PROCESS, EXPLAINING NUCLEAR RADIATION DAMAGE, RADIATION
DETECTING AND
APPLICATION OF NUCLEAR RADIATION IN MEDICAL TREATMENT,
MATERIAL ANALYSIS AND FOOD PRESERVATION
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPTS, PHYSICAL PHENOMENA AND PHYSICAL
LAWS OF PARTICLE PHYSICS BY FIRST EXPOUNDING THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF FOUR
FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS FORCES BETWEEN ELEMENTARY PARTICLES INCLUDING
PHYSICAL NATURES (STRONG, WEAK, ELECTRO-MAGNETIC OR GRAVITATIONAL), RANGES,
INTERACTION STRENGTHS AND INTERMEDIATE PARTICLES, EXPLAINING THE FACTS THAT
EACH PARTICLE HAS AN ANTIPARTICLE, ALL PARTICLES CAN BE GENERALLY DIVIDED INTO
FERMIONS AND BOSONS ACCORDING TO THEIR SPIN QUANTUM NUMBER, ALL PARTICLES ARE
CLASSIFIED AS HADRONS AND THREE-FAMILY LEPTONS ACCORDING
TO THEIR
PARTICIPATION IN STRONG INTERACTION, AND THAT HADRONS ARE FURTHER DIVIDED
INTO BARYONS AND MESONS IN TERMS OF THEIR SPIN, EXPLAINING THE NECESSITIES OF
INTRODUCING CHARGE, HYPERCHARGE, ISOSPIN, BARYON NUMBER, LEPTON NUMBER AND
STRANGENESS TO DISTINGUISH PARTICLES AND FURTHER, USING THE CONSERVATION
LAWS FOR BARYON NUMBER, LEPTON NUMBER IN EACH FAMILY AND STRANGENESS TO
JUDGE WHETHER A PARTICLE REACTION CAN OCCUR, EXPOUNDING HOW BARYONS AND
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MESONS CAN BE ARRANGED INTO TWO HEXAGONAL EIGHTFOLD-WAY PATTERN ACCORDING
TO THEIR CHARGES AND STRANGENESS AND THE APPLICATION OF THE PATTERN IN
SEARCHING NEW PARTICLES, DESCRIBING THE QUARK MODEL AND SHOWING THAT
HADRONS ARE CONSTITUTED BY QUARKS AND ANTI-QUARKS, DESCRIBING PHYSICAL
PROPERTIES OF SIX-FLAVOR OF QUARKS INCLUDING MASS, CHARGE, SPIN, BARYON NUMBER,
STRANGENESS, CHARM, BOTTOMNESS AND TOPNESS AND EMPHASIZING THAT EACH QUARK
HAS THREE COLORS, EXPOUNDING THAT IT IS THE COLOR FORCE INTERMEDIATED BY
GLUONS THAT BIND QUARKS TO FORM HADRONS AND THE THEORY MODEL IS CALLED
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS, EXPOUNDING THAT WEAK FORCE IS INTERMEDIATED BY
MASSIVE VECTOR BOSONS, AND THAT THERE EXIST A THEORETICAL MODEL CALLED
ELECTROWEAK THEORY
TO GIVE A UNIFIED DESCRIPTION TO WEAK AND
ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS AND THAT HIGGS BOSON, TERMED AS GOD PARTICLE
NOWADAYS, PROVIDES A MECHANISM OF BREAKING ELECTROWEAK SYMMETRY AND
CREATING MASSES TO MASSIVE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, DESCRIBING THAT THE
ELECTROWEAK THEORY AND QUANTUM CHRODYNAMICS CAN BE COMBINED TO GIVE A
UNIFIED DESCRIPTION TO ELECTROWEAK AND STRONG INTERACTIONS TERMED AS THE
STANDARD MODEL
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPTS AND PHYSICAL PHENOMENA IN
COSMOLOGY BY FIRST DESCRIBING THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF BIG BANG THEORY AND THE
SUPPORT PROVIDED BY THE DISCOVERY OF COSMIC BACKGROUND RADIATION AND THE
DATA FROM WMAP (THE WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE) , EXPOUNDING
THE IDEA OF EXPANDING UNIVERSE AND THE DISCOVERY THAT THE UNIVERSE EXPANDING
WITH AN ACCELERATION AS WELL AS THE ATTEMPT TO DETERMINING THE RATE OF
EXPANSION, EXPLAINING WHY THERE MUST EXIST DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY IN
THE UNIVERSE, FINALLY EXPOUNDING THE BASIC IDEAS OF SOME NEW THEORIES IN
PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY SUCH AS SUPERSYMMETRY, GRAND UNIFIED THEORY
AND SUPERSTRING/M-THEORY
OUTCOMES:
SUCCESSFUL GRADUATES OF THIS COURSE WILL DEMONSTRATE
1. A DEVELOPED KNOWLEDGE AND CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF KEY CONCEPTS,
METHODOLOGIES, THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIMENT SKILLS IN OPTICS
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AND MODERN PHYSICS AND A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF APPLICATIONS OF OPTICS
AND MODERN PHYSICS IN OTHER BRANCHES OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
AN ABILITY OF UNDERSTANDING PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING OPTICAL
PHENOMENA, EQUIPMENTS AND APPARATUS
AN ABILITY OF APPLYING THE CONCEPTS, PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES AND LAWS OF
OPTICS AND MODERN PHYSICS TO PROBLEMS IN OTHER BRANCHES OF NATURAL
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
AN APPRECIATION OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF OPTICS AND MODERN PHYSICS
AND ITS PRESENT KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE
A DEVELOPED ABILITY AND BACKGROUND TO SUCCEED IN FUTURE STUDY AND
CAREERS RELATED TO OPTICS AND MODERN PHYSICS
AN ABILITY OF UNDERSTANDING, ANALYZING, MODELING AND SOLVING PROBLEMS
IN OPTICS AND MODERN PHYSICS WITH ADVANCED MATHEMATICS SUCH AS
ADVANCED CALCULUS, COMPLEX FUNCTION, GEOMETRY AND ELEMENTARY
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
A DEVELOPED SKILL AND ABILITY IN PHYSICAL EXPERIMENT DESIGNING AND
SETTING-UP, EXPERIMENTAL EQUIPMENT AND DEVICE OPERATING, EXPERIMENT
DATA COLLECTING AND PROCESSING, EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF PHYSICAL LAWS
IN OPTICS AND MODERN PHYSICS