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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 2. 3. 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 4. 5. 6. 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 7. 8. 9. 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 10. 11. 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 12. 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 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 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