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Resistors -Voltmeters- Ammeters.

(Compulsory supplement of all tasks)

Β. Tasks

1. Μeasurement of the frequency of alternating current.
2. Μeasurement of the magnetic field of cyclic loops and coils.
3. Finding the e/me ratio of the electron.
4. Study of electrostatic fields.
5. Calculation of the phase difference between voltage and current with a wattmeter. Phasor diagrams.
6. Study of magnetic hysteresis loop.
7. Study of circuits with alternating currents.
8. Characteristic curves of a transformer.

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I. Experimental facts which led to the Einstein’s Principles of Relativity.

1. Analysis of the Michelson-Morley Experiment.
2. The Principles of Relativity.

II. The Lorenz Transformation.

1. Construction of the Lorenz Transformation using the Einstein’s gedanken experiments.
2. Transformation of velocities.

III. The Minkowski Space

1. Geometric picture of the Lorenz Transformation.
2. The concept of fourvectors.
3. The fourvectors of velocity and momentum.
4. Transformation of momenta and energies.

IV. Covariant formulation of Physical Laws.

1. Applications to scattering experiments.
2. Relativistic formulation of Electromagnetism.
3. A short presentation of Dirac’s Equation.

NUCLEAR PHYSICS I.

1. Scattering Experiments.
2. Rutherford’s Experiment and the discovery of nuclei and nuclear forces.
3. Size and shape of nuclei.
4. Structure of nuclei and distribution of nucleons.

II. Stability of nuclei.

1. Experimental curve of binding energy and of the neutron excess.
2. Proof of the semi-emperical nuclear mass formula.
3. Applications to fusion and fission.
4. Curves of stability of nuclei.

III. Instability of nuclei and radioactivity.

1. The Law of radioactive decay.
2. Description of the properties of α, β, and γ rays.
3. Applications of radioactivity.

IV. Nuclear forces.

1, The nature of nuclear forces- The Yukawa Potential.
2. Pions and rho mesons.

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS

I. A first classification of elementary particles.
II. The four basic interactions.
III. Leptons, mesons, baryons, hadrons.
IV. The Parton Model.
V. The Quark Model.
VI. Quantum Chromodynamics.
VII. Current questions and the Experiment at CERN.

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(a)   Particle-wave duality of light and the concept of photon (blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, Compton effect). Key-experiments and explanations
(b)   Early atomic models. Atomic spectra and the Bohr model. The Frank-Hertz experiment
(c)    Wave-particle duality. Planck’s constant and the Bohr-Wilson-Sommerfeld quantization rules
(d)   Critical review of Old Quantum Theory

III.    The principles of Modern Quantum Mechanics

(a)   Schroedinger equation. The physical meaning  of the wave function
(b)   Applications to simple one-dimensional systems
(c)    Introduction to three-dimensional examples. Degenerate states
(d)   Qualitative presentation of the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics. Measurement in Quantum Mechanics.

IV.   Qualitative  Schroedinger  description of  one-electron atoms. Comparison to Bohr model. Introduction of spin. Introduction  to addition of angular momenta
V.     Qualitative description of many-electron atoms. The Periodic Table of the elements
VI.   Qualitative  introduction to Moelecular Structure

Practical applications of Modern Quantum Mechanics

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