Physics 7C: Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Optics, Special Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics)

Google Drive folder with all of my lesson materials can be found here.

Please feel free to use these lesson plans and review problems, whether you are a GSI teaching, an undergrad taking, or just someone generally interested in the content of this course! If you use my work in any formal capacity (creating your own worksheets, etc.), I'd appreciate an acknowledgement somewhere in the posted material.

This course covers classical optics, special relativity, and an introduction to quantum mechanics. The specific course topics (most of which I cover at least briefly in my notes) are as follows:

• Maxwell's Equations (focus on the modified Ampere's equation)
• Electromagnetic waves in vacuum
• Reflection and refraction
• Spherical mirrors
• Thin lenses
• Polarization
• Wave optics, diffraction, and interference
• Lorentz transformations
• Time dilation and length contraction
• Space-time intervals and diagrams
• Relativistic velocity transformations
• Doppler effect
• Blackbody radiation
• Photoelectric effect
• Compton scattering
• Bohr model
• Wavefunctions
• Heisenberg uncertainty principle