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 or MATH1251
Excluded: PHYS1221, PHYS1231
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
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.