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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog - SCCC & Day Students 
    
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog - SCCC & Day Students

PHYS 223 - Modern Physics

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: PHYS 221  and PHYS 222  
The course material covers a selection of topics from twentieth century physics. It progresses from Maxwell equations, propagation of electromagnetic waves, and the wave theory of light to the elements of special relativity, early quantum theory of radiation, then to the principles of quantum mechanics. It discusses the fundamental experiments in modern physics and the principal discoveries in the area of atomic, solid state, nuclear and elementary-particle physics.

Requirements/Required: Required of all physics majors and minors; open to others as an elective. A continuation of the PHYS 221 /PHYS 222  physics sequence.