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Stevo6754
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Greetings,
First of all I believe this is the right forum as it isn't necessarily homework but more of a discussion about possible projects/experiments for a modern physics class. If it is in the incorrect forum could a mod please move it.
I am currently taking a physics 3 course that offers students the option of doing a project that is course related for 5% of your overall grade. A chronological list of topics covered in the course can be seen below.
- Temperature, ideal gas equation, heat, first law of thermodynamics
- Kinetic theory of gases, entropy, second law of thermodynamics
- Einstein's postulates, Lorentz transformation
- Time dilation and length contraction, doppler effect, relativistic momentum and energy, mass energy conversion
- General relativity, quantization of electric charge, blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect
- x-rays and compton effect
- Atomic spectra, Rutherford's nuclear model, Bohr model of hydrogen atom, x-ray spectra, Franck-Hertz experiment
- de Broglie, particle wavelengths and wave packets, wave function, uncertainty principle, wave-particle duality
- Schrodinger equation in one dimension, square wells harmonic oscillator
- Reflection and transmission of waves
- Schrodinger equation in three dimensions, hydrogen atom quantization of angular momentum and energy, electron spin
- spin-orbit effect, two particle system, classical and quantum statistics, Bose-Einstein condensation
- chemical bonding, ionic, covalent, spectra of diatomic molecules, scattering, absorption, stimulated emission
- structure of solids, classical theory of conduction
- free electron gas, quantum theory of conduction, semiconductors, super conductors
Having read up to general relativity thus far and scanning through the other content to be covered in the book I am unable to think of a good idea for a project. A good bit of the experiments seem to require radiation.. I was hoping to find a project where I could use my programming skills and knowledge of electronics. I'm familiar with c, MATLAB and java.
If you guys have any ideas of anything in particular I should look into please let me know.
Thanks!
First of all I believe this is the right forum as it isn't necessarily homework but more of a discussion about possible projects/experiments for a modern physics class. If it is in the incorrect forum could a mod please move it.
I am currently taking a physics 3 course that offers students the option of doing a project that is course related for 5% of your overall grade. A chronological list of topics covered in the course can be seen below.
- Temperature, ideal gas equation, heat, first law of thermodynamics
- Kinetic theory of gases, entropy, second law of thermodynamics
- Einstein's postulates, Lorentz transformation
- Time dilation and length contraction, doppler effect, relativistic momentum and energy, mass energy conversion
- General relativity, quantization of electric charge, blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect
- x-rays and compton effect
- Atomic spectra, Rutherford's nuclear model, Bohr model of hydrogen atom, x-ray spectra, Franck-Hertz experiment
- de Broglie, particle wavelengths and wave packets, wave function, uncertainty principle, wave-particle duality
- Schrodinger equation in one dimension, square wells harmonic oscillator
- Reflection and transmission of waves
- Schrodinger equation in three dimensions, hydrogen atom quantization of angular momentum and energy, electron spin
- spin-orbit effect, two particle system, classical and quantum statistics, Bose-Einstein condensation
- chemical bonding, ionic, covalent, spectra of diatomic molecules, scattering, absorption, stimulated emission
- structure of solids, classical theory of conduction
- free electron gas, quantum theory of conduction, semiconductors, super conductors
Having read up to general relativity thus far and scanning through the other content to be covered in the book I am unable to think of a good idea for a project. A good bit of the experiments seem to require radiation.. I was hoping to find a project where I could use my programming skills and knowledge of electronics. I'm familiar with c, MATLAB and java.
If you guys have any ideas of anything in particular I should look into please let me know.
Thanks!