Sneak Preview of Physics 220
Topics are special relativity and quantum mechanics, which covers the time period roughly 1800 to 1940, plus some nuclear and particle physics which takes us right up to the present day.
Required Texts (same as last year):
Moore, Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit R - The Laws of Physics are Frame-Independent
- SECOND edition.
Moore, Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit Q - Particles Behave Like Waves
- SECOND edition.
Gribbin, In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality.