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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 02:06:49 2020 No.12206045 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12206054 >>12206381 >>12206610 >>12206681 >>12207233

EE here, I have a modern physics class coming up and it seems only EE's and Physics majors have to take it. None of my friends are upperclass EE's or Physics students so I can't ask them what the class is about. So I'm here on /sci/ asking, what is this modern physics class about? I like knowing about what I'm going to learn in this class before taking it.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 02:11:53 No.12206054 Report

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>>12206045
it is all the science and innovation that came from Wakanda and also achievements of trannys and feminists, compared to them our technology level is that of stone age.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 02:14:06 No.12206061 Report

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>>12206054
Please don't turn my thread into some schizo /pol/ shit, you have billions of other /sci/ threads for that.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 04:12:25 No.12206381 Report

Quoted By: >>12206662 >>12207913

>>12206045
it's a good class, a balance of classic physics and modern physics, mid level, transitioning from basic mechanics and statistics into things like nuclear, atomic, photovoltaic effect, standard model, and relativistic. a general physics class.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 05:38:10 No.12206610 Report

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>>12206045
You know you google the course number and your university name to find out, right?

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 06:16:48 No.12206662 Report

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>>12206381
This sounds about right. I remember there was a lot of stuff about relativity and quantum mechanics and black body radiation and shit like that. It was a neat class but to be honest I took it my last semester of college as a science elective so I didn't give it that much attention. I was a chemical engineering major but I think the rest of the class was EEs or physics sophomores.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 06:23:30 No.12206681 Report

Quoted By: >>12206867 >>12207913

>>12206045
relativity and quantum mechanics and since they call it modern physics then you know itll just be an intro to these topics, probably special relativity and the basic intro to quantum with no calculus or any formalisms

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 08:13:20 No.12206867 Report

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>>12206681
This is exactly what the class is, just intro to special relativity and quantum mechanics. By class used Tipler's Modern Physics as our textbook. I never understood why EE's have to take it really, but maybe that's just because I lack knowledge as to what EE's actually do. I found Modern Physics to be much, much more enjoyable than general mechanics, e&m, etc. It feels more like an actual physics class than a general requirement for 10 different majors.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 12:34:42 No.12207233 Report

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>>12206045
Modern Physics was an introduction into special relativity, very basic quantum (no schrödinger eq at all) and nuclear physics for me. Early freshman year course so you had at least a clue what those topics were about before delving into them more depth. Personally it was my favourite freshman year subject.
>>12206867
EE's might have to take it to equip them with some rudimentary quantum knowledge at least which is starting to become more important in microelectronics every passing year. Special relativity/Lorentz Transform might be interesting for them because it's a logical necessity if both electrodynamics and relativity are to hold.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 16:49:56 No.12207913 Report

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>>12206681
>no calculus
Why? We've already taken calc 3 and diff eq's by this point?
>>12206381
>>12206662
>>12206867
>>12207233
So what I'm gathering is that it's just some basic relativity and quantum physics. Ok that sounds kinda fun.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 16:55:26 No.12207928 Report

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>>12206061
why did you post a frog in your op then?

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2020 17:39:00 No.12208109 Report

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>>12207913
Schrödinger equation and quantum formalisms and such are too much to cram into a simple course like that especially since it's just an introduction without going more in depth with it.
You'll still need some calculus for nuclear physics and relativity though IIRC.

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