Gettysburg College

Physics 111: Introductory Modern Physics I. Introduction to conservation laws and modern physics: the conservation of momentum, energy and angular momentum as fundamental laws, vectors and the concept of velocity, superposition and the interference of waves, physical optics, introductory principles of quantum physics, applications in atomic and nuclear physics. 

Prerequisite: Mathematics 111, which may be taken concurrently.

Instructor for Fall 2008: Peter Pella

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"Nature and Nature's Laws
Lay hid in the night.
God said 'Let Newton be'
And all was light." -Alexander Pope

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