Subatomic Physics

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course is an introduction to the fields of nuclear and particle physics. Topics include properties and structure of nuclei, the shell model, radioactivity, nuclear reactions, fission and fusion, elementary particles and fundamental interactions, fermions, bosons, Feynman diagrams, quantum electrodynamics and the electromagnetic force, quarks and hadron spectroscopy, meson exchange potentials, color charge and quantum chromodynamics, the weak gauge bosons and the electroweak force, symmetries and conservation laws, and the standard model. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 206-4