Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the limitations of classical physics and the resulting need to introduce the principles of the Special Theory of Relativity.
2. Understand and apply basic transformations between different reference frames in Special Relativity.
3. Draw and read spacetime diagrams.
4. Calculate the results of collisions between relativistic particles.
5. Understand the key ideas of introductory equilibrium statistical mechanics.
6. Describe the key phenomena of thermal radiation and determine its effects, apply the mathematical laws relating to those phenomena to real-world problems and critically evaluate the results.
7. Describe different aspects of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter and make predictions for outcomes of related experiments based on the understanding and the mathematical models developed in this course.
8. Understand the atomic models of Bohr and Schrodinger and do basic calculations for Bohr's model.
9. Understand the connection between the quantum mechanical description of nature and non-intuitive phenomena like Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Pauli-Exclusion principle and tunneling.