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FAIL KURSUS PHY 310

FAKULTI SAINS GUNAAN, UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA, 72000 KUALA PILAH, NEGERI SEMBILAN DARUL KHUSUS.

PHY 310 MODERN PHYSICS COURSE OUTLINE Lecturer Contact No Room No Email Level Credit Hour : NOR HALIZA BINTI YAAKOB : 06 4832143 (Office), 013-9495135(Mobile) : 3051 : norhaliza@ns.uitm.edu.my : Diploma : Lecture (2 hrs/week); Practical (2 hrs/week); Tutorial (1 hrs/week).

Course Description : In Modern Physics, topics covered included the Blackbody radiation, Early Quantum Theory, Photoelectric Effect, Atomic Structure and Energy Levels in an atom, Spectral lines of hydrogen, X-ray, Nuclear Physics, Radioactivity, and Nuclear reaction. Assessment: i) Course work: 3 Test 3 x 20% 2 Quiz 2 x 10% Laboratory FINAL EXAM = 30% = 20% = 10% = 10% = 60%

ii) iii)

Recommended Text: Physics for Scientist and Engineers by Giancoli , DC (2009). Prentice Hall
References: 1. Halliday, D., Resnick, R. and Walker, J (2001). Fundamental of Physics. 6 th Edition. Singapore: John Wiley and Sons. 2. Cutnell, J.D and Johnson, K.W, (2007). Physics. 7th Edition. Singapore: John Wiley and Sons. 3. Vuille C and Serway R.A, (2006). College Physics, 8th Edition. USA: Brooks/Cole.

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SYLLABUS
Chapter 1 Blackbody radiation Chapter 2 Early Quantum Theory Chapter 3 Photoelectric Effect Chapter 4 Atomic Structure and Energy Levels in an atom Chapter 5 Spectral lines of hydrogen Chapter 6 X-ray Chapter 7 Nuclear Physics Chapter 8 Radioactivity Chapter 9 Nuclear reaction

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WEEK

PERIOD

SYLLIBUS 1.0 Blackbody Radiation

17 June 21 June 2013

1.1 Concept of Blackbody 1.2 Stefans Law, Energy Spectrum 1.3 Wiens Displacement Law

2.0 Early Quantum Theory 2.1 Electrons : properties, motion in magnetic and electric field 2.2 J.J Thompsons experiment, Milikan 3 24 June 28 June 2013 experiment 2.3 De Broglie relation 2.4 Wave-particle duality; the principle of Complementarity 2.5 Wave nature of matter 2.6 Electron diffraction 2.7 Plancks quantum hypothesis

3.0 Photoelectric Effect 3.1 Effect of intensity and frequency of a light wave on the photoelectrons produced 4 -5 1 July 12 July 2013 3.2 Photoelectric current against potential graph 3.3 Quantitative study of the equations, work function and threshold frequency 3.4 Photon theory of light
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[PHY 310/COURSE INFO/LESSON PLAN] June 1, 2013 3.5 Failure of wave optics in explaining the photo electric effect.

TEST 1

4.0 Atomic Structure and Energy Level In Atoms 4.1 Thompsons model, Rutherfords model 4.2 The Bohr model of hydrogen atom 4.3 Bohrs Postulates 4.4 Emission and absorption line spectrum of hydrogen gas 6 -7 15 July 26 July 2013 4.5 Evidence of quantized energy level 4.6 Radius of the Bohr Orbit 4.7 Energy of the quantum state, n of the hydrogen atom 4.8 Energy quantum state, n of an atom 4.9 The energy level diagram 4.10 Qualitative study of Frank and

Hertz experiment 4.11 Concept of excitation and

ionization

5. Spectral Lines of Hydrogen 5.1 Electronic transition hydrogen atom 8 29 July 2 Aug 2013 5.2 Energy emitted and absorbed in a transition 5.3 Lyman series, Balmer series and Pashen series

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5 Aug 9 Aug 2013

CUTI KHAS PERAYAAN

6. X-ray 6.1 Discovery and qualitative study of the production of X-ray 9 12 August 16 August 2013 6.2 The continuous and characteristic Xray spectra 6.3 Diffraction of x-rays 6.4 Braggs equation 6.5 Mosleys Law

TEST 2

7. Nuclear Physics 7.1 Structure and properties of the nucleus 7.2 Discovery of neutrons 7.3 The nuclear forces 7.4 Atomic number and mass number 10 - 11 19 Aug 30 Aug 2013 7.5 Atomic mass unit 7.6 Mass defect 7.7 Binding energy per nucleon 7.8 Mass energy equation 7.9 Isotope of an element mass spectrometer 7.10 7.11 Mass spectrometer Detection of presence of isotope

8. Radioactivity 12 - 13 2 Sept 13 Sept 2013 8.1 Alpha, beta and gamma decay 8.2 Rate of radioactive decay 8.3 Conservation of nucleon number and
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[PHY 310/COURSE INFO/LESSON PLAN] June 1, 2013 other conservation laws 8.4 Decay constant and half-life activity 8.5 Formula for nuclear decay 8.6 Graph of N against t 8.7 Decay series 8.8 Radioactive dating 8.9 Carbon dating 8.10 Detection of radiation

9. Nuclear reaction 9.1 Balancing the nuclear reaction 9.2 Reaction energy, Q-value 14 16 Sept 20 Sept 2013 9.3 Nuclear reactors 9.4 Chain reaction 9.5 Nuclear fission 9.6 Nuclear fusion

TEST 3

15

23 Sept 24 Sept 2013

REVISION WEEK

16

25 Sept 13 Oct 2013

EXAMINATION WEEKS

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