Course title:
Modern Physics
Primary programme:
Fizikus mérnök BSc
ECTS credits:
8
Course type:
compulsory
Number of lectures per week:
4
Number of practices per week:
2
Number of laboratory exercises per week:
0
Further knowledge transfer methods:
-
Grading:
Examination
Special grading methods:
-
Semester:
4
Prerequisites:
Mechanics
Responsible lecturer:
Dr. Gergely Zaránd, university professor, corresponding member of HAS
Lecturers and instructors:
Course description:
RELATIVITY: The Principle of Relativity; The Lorentz Transformation; Spacetime and Causality;
Relativistic Energy and Mass– Conservation of Relativistic Momentum and Energy.
THE QUANTUM THEORY OF LIGHT: Blackbody Radiation; The Quantum of Energy; Photoelectric Effect; Compton Effect.
QUANTUM MECHANICS: Bohr’s Correspondence Principle; Wave Groups and Dispersion;
The Wave–Particle Duality; Schrödinger's equation.
QUANTUM MECHANICS IN ONE DIMENSION: Born Interpretation; Quantum Oscillator; Expectation Values; Observables and Operators; Wavefunction for a Free Particle; Wavefunctions in the Presence of Forces; Tunneling Phenomena.
QUANTUM MECHANICS IN THREE DIMENSIONS: Atomic Hydrogen and Hydrogen-like Ions.
Quantization of Angular Momentum.
ATOMIC STRUCTURE: Zeeman Effect;Spin–Orbit Interaction; Exclusion Principle; Electron Interactions and Screening Effects. MOLECULAR STRUCTURE: Bonding Mechanisms, Molecular Spectra, Vibrations.
NUCLEAR STRUCTURE: Binding Energy and Nuclear Forces; Nuclear Models; Radioactivity; Decay Processes.
NUCLEAR REACTIONS AND APPLICATIONS: Reaction Cross Section; Interactions Involving Neutrons; Nuclear Fission; Nuclear Reactors; Nuclear Fusion; Interaction of Particles with Matter; Radiation Damage in Matter; Radiation Detectors; Uses of Radiation.
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES : The Fundamental Forces in Nature; Positrons and Other Antiparticles; Classification of Particles; Conservation Laws: Baryon Number, Lepton Number; Strange Particles and Strangeness; The Eightfold Way; Quarks; Electroweak Theory and the Standard Model.
Reading materials:
Kenneth S. Krane: Modern Physics (Wiley, 2012) ISBN 978-1118061145.
John R. Taylor, Chris D. Zafiratos, Michael A. Dubson: Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Viva Books Private, 2017) ISBN 978-1938787751
Raymond A. Serway, Clement J. Moses, Curt A. Moyer: Modern Physics (Thomson Brooks Cole, 2005), ISBN: 9780534493394,0534493394
List of competences:
Please find the detailed list, as quoted from the Hungarian training and outcome requirements of the Physicist Engineer program, in the Hungarian version of the course description.