Introduction:

Theory of Restricted Relativity.

Inertia References and Galileo’s Principle of Relativity.

Michelson-Morley experiment.

Einstein’s Principle of Relativity and Postulates of Relativity.

Lorentz Transformations.

Time dilation and space contraction.

Spacetime diagrams and light cone.

Velocity transformations.

Relativistic Dynamics. Relation between mass and energy.

Energy and linear moment of relativistic particles. Conservation of linear momentum and energy.

Waves and introduction to Quantum Theory.

Characteristics and properties of waves.

Phase Velocity and Group Velocity in a wavy movement.

Law of Reflection and Law of Refraction.

Huygens-Fresnel Principle. Young’s experiment.

Doppler effect.

X-rays production and their properties.

Bragg diffraction.

Photoelectric effect, corpuscle light.

Compton Effect.

Gravitational Doppler Effect.

Wave-particle duality and complementarity principle.

De Broglie Hypothesis. Davisson-Germer Experiment. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. Wave function of a particle.

Black Body Radiation.

Wien’s Law and Rayleigh-Jeans’s Theory.

Planck’s Theory.

Penzias and Wilson’s Experiments and the Temperature of the Universe.

Atomic models.

Thomson’s Atomic Model.

Rutherford Experiment.

Bohr’s Atomic Model.

Atomic Spectroscopy: absorption and emission spectra.

Frank-Hertz Experiment.

The atomic nuclei and elementary particles.

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