What Topics Are Covered in a 300 Level Modern Physics Class?

[cdotter]

What topics are typically covered in a 300 level modern physics class?

 

[eri]

When I took the course, we covered basic quantum (what you'd get from a chemistry course, plus a little more), semiconductors, special relativity, nuclear physics, and astrophysics. Touched on a few other smaller topics, but those were the main ones. We used Tipler's Modern Physics book.

 

[Jack21222]

When I took it, we covered chapters 3-8 in Serway/Moses/Moyer

That included the particle nature of light, matter waves, the time-independent 1 dimensional Schrödinger equation, and tunneling.

 

[Vanadium 50]

The content will vary a lot school by school because a lot of the content depends on what other classes are offered or required.