PHY3021F is the first semester Advanced Physics course for students majoring in Physics.

Course co-ordinator

Associate Professor H. Weigert - Room 408, RW James Building

Entrance requirements

PHY2014F and PHY2015S, and MAM2000W or (MAM2004H and MAM2046W) must have been completed or be taken concurrently.

Course outline

ELECTROMAGNETISM: Maxwell's equations in vacuum and in matter, conservation laws, momentum and angular momentum in electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic waves, the Fresnel relations, laws of optics, absorption and dispersion, frequency dependence of permittivity, wave guides, gauge transformations, retarded potentials, electric and magnetic dipole radiation, power radiated by a point charge, special relativity, four-vectors, relativistic kinematics, relativistic electrodynamics, the electromagnetic field tensor.

THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS: Temperature, heat and work, First law of thermodynamics, Ensembles and entropy, Second law of thermodynamics, Boltzmann distribution and Helmholtz free energy, thermal radiation, chemical potential and Gibbs distribution, Fermi-Dirac statistics, electrons in metals, Bose-Einstein statistics, phonons, photons and the black-body distribution, the Bose-Einstein condensate, applications to classical and quantum systems

PHYLAB3 LABORATORY: Six experiments in PHYLAB3

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