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Description Students will be introduced to fundamental concepts in Physics through a selection of topics in the following two areas: Atomic and Nuclear Physics: wave-particle duality; the wave nature of patricles; deBroglie wavelength; electron and X-ray diffraction; photoelectric effect; quantisation of energy; Bohr model of the hydrogen atom; the nucleus and nuclear particles, unstable nuclei; ionizing radiation; radiocarbon dating; nuclear energy. Electricity and Magnetism: Coulomb's law, calculations of electric fields and potentials; Gauss's law, capacitance, conductors and electric currents, origins of electrical resistance, Ohm's law, electrical measurements; motion of charges in electric and magnetic fields; Ampere's law; Biot-Savart law; electromagnetic induction, Faraday's law, inductance; displacement current, Maxwell's equations in integral form.
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