Advanced Physics

What Students Learn

This introduction to modern physics explores relativity and quantum physics alongside fluid mechanics. Students examine relationships between time and space and questions of energy and measurement in microscopic systems, using models and mathematical analysis to understand the domains of different physical theories.

Learning Focus

1. Relativity: reference frames and relationships between time and space

2. Quantum physics: quantization and wave-particle duality

3. Microscopic models: atomic structure and questions of measurement

4. Fluid mechanics: continuity and energy relationships alongside viscosity

Learning Outcomes

Students compare model assumptions, explain connections between theory and observation, and use mathematical relationships to analyze problems. The course broadens their understanding of physics and provides conceptual foundations for university study.