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‫ מבוא לפיזיקה מודרנית‬:‫סילבוס‬
Participants in the 1927 Fifth Solvay Conference for Physics,
including Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Max Planck, and Marie Curie
‫ שעה תרגול‬1 + ‫ שעות הרצאה‬3 :‫מבנה הקורס‬
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‫ להקנות את הסטודנט את היסודות הפיזיקליים של המכניקה קוונטית‬:‫מטרת הקורס‬
.‫בהשקפה עם דגש להתפתחות היסטורית של המושגים‬
.I ‫ חדו"א‬,I ‫ פיזיקה‬:‫תנאי קדם‬
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:‫ ספרות‬
1) Lecture Notes by Michael Fowler (Virginia University):
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/home.html
2)"Modern Physics" , Krane, Kenneth S (John Wiley & Sons, 1996).
3) "Quantum physics of atoms, molecules, solids, nuclei, and particles" Robert
Resnick & Robert Martin Eisberg (Wiley, 1985)
4) "Modern Physics", Tipler, Paul A./ Llewellyn, Ralph A.(Macmillan Higher
Education, 2012)
5) Concepts of Modern Physics, Arthur Beiser (McGraw-Hill ,2003)
The Genius of Science: A portrait gallery (Oxford University Press, 2000)
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‫ מבוא לפיזיקה מודרנית‬:‫סילבוס‬
Week Subject
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1,2,3 Waves
Wave equation in the string and solutions. Energy and power. Standing waves,
group and phase velocities. Transmission and reflection between two media. Sound
waves, Doppler effect. Interference and diffraction, electromagnetic waves.
4,5 Special Relativity
Michelson Morley effect and Einstein's postulate of constancy of the speed of light.
Kinematics: Time dilatation, Lorentz Contraction, relativity of simultaneity, Lorentz
transformations, addition of velocities, the bar paradox.
Dynamics: Momentum conservation in elastic collisions and the relativistic mass.
Momentum conservation in plastic collision + Einstein's light experiment inside a
tube: equivalence mass and energy, nuclear binding energy.
6 Thermal Physics
Ideal gases, Boltzmann's distribution, equipartition theorem.
Black Body radiation, Raylegh model and the ultraviolet catastrophe.
Einstein's postulate.
7 Strange Rays
Compton and photoelectric effects.
Cathode rays , Thomson experiment.
Discovery of radioactivity, Becquerel and Paul-Marie Curie.
Rutherford: α,β,γ rays
8 The Atom
From Lavoisier to Mendeleyev and to Thomson's Model. Atomic spectra.
Rutherford scattering and Rutherford's model, instability under radiation emission.
Bohr's Model and Bohr quantization rule. Frank-Hertz and Stern-Gerlach's (spin)
experiments.
9,10,11 Quantum Theory:
The De Broglie wave, Davidson-Germer experiment. Schroedinger's equation
The uncertainty principle and measurements: the double slit experiment and
Schroedinger's cat paradox. The uncertainty principle as a means of estimating the
ground state energy of bound systems.
The infinite potential well, the harmonic oscillator, the potential barrier:
transmission and tunneling. Gamow's tunneling formula, alpha decay.
12,13
Three dimensional Schroedinger equation , particle in a box,degeneracy.
The Hydrogen atom: Angular momentum, wave function and spectrum Spectroscopic notation and the periodic table.
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