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| | PHYS 227 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Geometrical and physical optics; speed of light, reflection, refraction, mirrors and thin lenses, total internal reflection. |
 | | Wave phenomena; Youngs slits, phasors, phase, Newtons rings, Michelson interferometer, diffraction from a single slit and gratings, polarization of light. |
 | | Postulates, Michelson Morley experiment, Minkowski diagrams, Lorentz- Einstein transformations, time dilation, Lorentz contraction, velocity addition formulae, Doppler shift, Einsteins box and mass-energy, energy momentum and mass, twin paradox, definition of space-time intervals. |
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