Modern Physics

[Please, notice that this page contains files that cannot be read and accessed by people with disabilities. This will be progressively changed. If you need access to some of these files, please write to lea.santos@uconn.edu]

(undergraduate course)
Topics: quantization of light and matter; nuclear model; Hydrogen atom; wave-particle duality; Schrödinger equation; time dilation; mass-energy equivalence.

Lesson 01 (Blackbody)
Lesson 02 (Millikan)
Lesson 03 (Photoelectric effect)
Lesson 04 (X-rays)
Lesson 05 (Compton effect)
Lesson 06 (Rutheford nuclear model)
Lesson 07 (Bohr nuclear model)
Lesson 08 (Frack Hertz experiment)
Lesson 09 (de Broglie wavelength)
Lesson 10 (Uncertainty Principle)
Lesson 11 (Schrödinger equation)
Lesson 12 (Lorentz transformation)
Lesson 13 (Time dilation)
Lesson 14 (Relativistic velocity)
Lesson 15 (Spacetime diagram)
Lesson 16 (Relativistic mass)
Lesson 17 (Relativistic energy)
Lesson 18 (Fusion & Fission)
Lesson 19 (Lorentz transformation: E, p)
Lesson 20 (Paradoxes)
Lesson 21 (Particle Physics)