PHYS 3305 (Fall 2011)
Introduction to Modern Physics

• Lecture: TTh 12:30pm ---- 1:50 pm in Rm 155 Fondren Science.
• Instructor: Professor Bob Kehoe
• Office hours: Tuesday 10:00 am ---- 12:00am in Rm 113 Fondren Science.
• Contact:
  • Call or leave a message at (214) 768-1793, or
  • Leave a note in the Physics Department Office or send me e-mail: <kehoe@physics.smu.edu>

• Syllabus and Homework Assignment (PDF)
• Textbook: Harris, Modern Physics, 2nd edition
• Quizzes: Given at start of selected lectures, roughly 20 minutes long, closed book.

• Presentation Materials:
  • Motivation and Schedule PDF
  • Giving a Technical Presentation PDF

• Test Dates:
  • Mid-Term Exam - Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011
  • Final Exam - (Cumulative) 8am -- 11am on Mon, Dec 12, 2011

• Course Notes: (PDFs)
  • Introduction: Notes
  • Chapter 2: Special Relativity Notes , HW Solns #1 and #2
  • Chapter 3: Particle Properties of EM Waves Notes HW Solns.
  • Chapter 4: Wave Properties of Matter Particles p1 and p2-19 Notes , HW Solns.
  • Chapter 5: Schrodinger Equation Notes and HW Solns.
  • Chapter 6: Potential Barriers Notes and HW Solns.
  • Chapter 7: Hydrogen Atom Notes and HW Solns.
  • Chapter 8: Spin and Many Electron Atoms Notes and HW Solns.
  • Chapter 10: Semiconductors Notes , MP4 and HW Solns.