Higher Physics 1B (Special) - PHYS1241
Faculty: Faculty of Science
School: School of Physics
Course Outline: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PHYS1131 or PHYS1141; Co-requisites: MATH1231 or MATH1241
Excluded: PHYS1221, PHYS1231
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Description
This course is designed for Physics majors and all students taking an Advanced Science program that includes Physics. PHYS1241 is the 'companion' course to PHYS1131 Higher Physics 1A or PHYS1141 Higher Physics 1A (Special), available in S1.
The topics covered in PHYS1241 are: Electricity and Magnetism: electrostatics, Gauss's law, electric potential, capacitance and dielectrics, magnetic fields and magnetism, Ampere's and Biot-Savart law, Faraday's law, induction and inductance. Physical Optics: light, interference, diffraction, gratings and spectra, polarization. Introductory quantum theory and the wave of nature of matter. Introductory solid state and semiconductor physics: simple energy band picture. Special relativity: inertial reference frames, length contraction, time dilation, equivalence of mass and energy. There is also a laboratory course covering material relevant to lectures.
The topics covered in PHYS1241 are: Electricity and Magnetism: electrostatics, Gauss's law, electric potential, capacitance and dielectrics, magnetic fields and magnetism, Ampere's and Biot-Savart law, Faraday's law, induction and inductance. Physical Optics: light, interference, diffraction, gratings and spectra, polarization. Introductory quantum theory and the wave of nature of matter. Introductory solid state and semiconductor physics: simple energy band picture. Special relativity: inertial reference frames, length contraction, time dilation, equivalence of mass and energy. There is also a laboratory course covering material relevant to lectures.