PHYS 3650 - Modern Physics
Final Examination - Review Sheet

The final examination will consist of ten (10) problems taken from the topics below.  Students will select eight of the ten problems to work for credit on the final exam.  There will also be a bonus problem.  Qualitative questions related to these topics will be included as parts of the problems.  No multiple choice questions will appear on the final exam.

problem topics course
objective(s)		 homework
problems		 quiz and exam
problems		 text
examples
special relativity:  time dilation and length contraction 3-1,  3-2

TQ: 26-3, 26-5
TP: 26-3, 26-4, 26-6, 26-7, 26-8, 26-9, 26-12, 26-13

 Quiz 1
Exam I-7		 Ex 26.2
Ex 26.3
Ex 26.4
photoelectric effect 5-4

TQ: 27-7, 27-15
TP: 27-13, 27-14, 27-15, 27-16

 Quiz 3
Exam I-8		 Ex 27.4
Compton effect 6-4

TP: 27-27, 27-29

 Quiz 4 (2001)
Exam I-9		 Ex 27.7
de Broglie's hypothesis:  matter waves 7-1

TP: 27-37, 27-38, 27-41

 Quiz 4 Ex 27.8
Ex 27.9
Bohr model of the hydrogen atom 10-6, 10-7, 11-1, 11-2

TP: 28-12, 28-14, 28-15, 28-16, 28-17a 

 Quiz 5
Exam II-7		 Ex 28.1
Ex 28.2
Ex 28.4
many electron atoms 12-1, 13-3, 13-5, 13-6

TP: 28-32, 28-33, 28-36, 28-37

 Quiz 6 (2001)
Exam II-8		 Ex 28.5
x rays 14-2, 14-3

TP: 28-40, 28-41
XPS: 1, 2, 3, 4

Quiz 6
Exam II-10

 none
lasers 15-5

LPS: 1, 2, 3

 none
Exam II-9		 none
radioactive decay laws 18-7, 21-2

TP: 29-13, 29-14, 29-17, 29-33, 29-34

 Quiz 8
Exam III-8		 Ex 28.3
Ex 29.4
Ex 29.7
alpha decay 19-3, 19-4

TP: 29-28

Quiz 9
Exam III-7

 Ex 29.5
beta decay 20-1, 20-4

TP: 29-27, 29-30, 29-31, 29-32

 Quiz 10
Exam III-9		 Ex 29.6
nuclear reactions 22-5

TP: 29-38, 29-39, 29-42

 none
Exam III-10		 Ex 29.8
radiation dose 26-2

TP: 29-45, 29-48, 29-49, BES-1, BES-2

 Quiz 11 none
fission and fission reactors 26-6

TP: 30-1, 30-2

Quiz 12

 Ex 30.1
fusion 29-2, 29-5

TP: 30-10, 30-12

none

 Ex 30.3

 

Last update: September 20, 2000