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 2009: 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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