Advanced Optics and Nuclear Physics - PHYS3031
Faculty: Faculty of Science
School: School of Physics
Course Outline: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Kensington Campus
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHYS3210 or PHYS3011, and, MATH2120 or MATH2130; Exclusion: PHYS3050, PHYS3060
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Review of geometrical optics, including ray tracing, aberrations and optical instruments: physical optics, including Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, transfer functions, coherence, auto and cross correlation: applications of optics, including fibre optics, lasers and holography.
Nuclear shell model; theory of beta decay; the deuteron; theories of nuclear reactions, resonances; mesons and strange particles, elementary particle properties and interactions; symmetries and quark models; strong and weak interactions.
Assumed Knowledge: Third year quantum mechanics and second year electrodynamics.
Nuclear shell model; theory of beta decay; the deuteron; theories of nuclear reactions, resonances; mesons and strange particles, elementary particle properties and interactions; symmetries and quark models; strong and weak interactions.
Assumed Knowledge: Third year quantum mechanics and second year electrodynamics.
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