Faculty of Science

Objectives

To provide the relevant knowledge on the structure of atomic, nuclear and particle systems and also understand the theory through experiments.

Contents

Atomic Structure: Quantum Numbers from Schroedinger equation for the atom - orbital, total energy, magnetic quantum number (Revision of PHY308 - Quantum Mechanics); Electron Spin: Zeeman effect; normal & anomalous - experiment& theory, Pauli's exclusion principle, Electron configuration & periodic table Atomic Spectra :origin of spectral lines - transition probability, selection rules, 1-electron, 2-electron, spectra Atomic Effects: Zeeman, Paschen effects, Atomic Nucleus: Structure, Theory, Experiment - Nuclear mass Components - protons, neutrons, size, stability, Nuclear forces and models :Meson Theory of nucleus, liquid-drop model, shell model, Radio Activity Theory of RA decay – At decay, β decay, γ decay, neutrino decay; Experimental studies of decay Nuclear Reactions and Nuclear Energy: Nuclear collisions, Scattering cross-section, energy exchange Nuclear Fission, chain reaction, thermonuclear energy, Nuclear reactors; Elementary Particles: particles, antiparticles, conservation of parameters & symmetry.

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