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Kan därmed läsas av alla och ändras av lärare.

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Scheduling staff edited 11 March 2016

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C3:3031 at the AlbaNova campus

February 2016

Dear all,

The list of projects has been updated and a number of suggested subjects have been added.

https://www.kth.se/social/course/SH2008/page/project-38/

Kindly let me know if there is any problem and if neither of those projects fit you.

Best regards,

Chong

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Teacher Chong Qi posted 10 February 2016

January 2016

Dear friends,

Thank you for your registration for the course Introductory modern physics SH2008. I hope you are also aware that it still starting in one week on January 21 between 08-10 (we start actually at 08:15). The first lecture will be in the seminar room C3:3031of the KTH physics department (the so-called Hibert room) on the 3rd floor of the AlbaNova University centrum. It is in the corridor of the KTH nuclear and reactor physics groups.

For the textbook see information here https://www.kth.se/social/course/SH2008/page/textbooks/

We will have seven lectures in total and the detailed plan can be found below https://www.kth.se/social/course/SH2008/page/plans-for-lectures/

All the lecture notes and home assignment from last year could be found here (the files will be updated during the course)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vw4i1j8pao4jh6g/AAA93czIU1gNCbBOF8tAD8TAa?dl=0

It will be highly appreciated if you could read Ch. 1,3, 4 of Harris'book or Chap. 3-5 of Serway's book. In particular, please be prepared to answer the following questions during the first lecture

Triumphs of Classical Physics

Electromagnetic radiation and the challenges

What is Black-body radiation

photoelectric effect.

Compton scattering

Pair production

Wave packets and the Heisenberg uncertainty relation.

Wave-particle duality

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You can ignore the following information if you were at AlbaNova before

Information about AlbaNova can be found here

http://www.albanova.se/index.php?q=an/hem&flavor=an&modal_once=0&cnf_useTrickyHeader_once=Y

and

https://www.google.se/maps/place/Alba+Nova+Universitetscentrum/@59.3536055,18.0578489,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s-VGxKNGICYMA%2FUviDRj90HDI%2FAAAAAAAAAIw%2F6chj4xvk4uw!2e4!3e12!6s%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2F-VGxKNGICYMA%2FUviDRj90HDI%2FAAAAAAAAAIw%2F6chj4xvk4uw%2Fs114-k-no%2F!7i1296!8i972!4m2!3m1!1s0x465f9d12942126d5:0xf1f9b2d0ed264f2e!6m1!1e1?hl=en

Please be aware that you are actually on the fifth floor if you enter from the main entrance and you will need to go downstairs and turn left. Our corridor is close to the cafeteria.

Kindly let me know if you have any problems.

Looking forward to seeing you next week.