Physics 470

Subatomic Physics

 

Spring Semester 2008

Announcements

Lecture Summaries

 

Homework Assignments

 

Candidate Final Exam Problems

 

Final Exam and Solutions

Links

 

The Particle Adventure ABC’s of Nuclear Science The Universe Adventure

 

ATLAS – the movie  RHIC – a movie  Fermi-Lab – a movie

 

Particle Data Group  National Nuclear Data Center  SPIRES

 

SLAC  FNAL  BNL  J-LAB  DESY  CERN  KEK  IHEP

Information on Physics 470

What:
The nature and properties of nuclei and elementary particles, symmetries, interactions, nuclear models, tools and techniques of experimental subatomic physics, and applications to power generation, astrophysics, chemistry, medicine, and biology. Lecture-problem format.

When:
Lectures Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30 - 3:50 pm.

Where:
136 Loomis Laboratory of Physics

Who:

Instructor:  Paul Debevec
Office:        405 Loomis Laboratory
Phone:       (217) 333-0285
Email:        debevec@uiuc.edu

Office hours:  Tuesday 2:00 – 4:00pm (best to send email ahead of time)

 

Grader:     Ching-Kai Chiu
Office:      390E LSI

Phone:     (217) 333 8562
Email:      chiu7@uiuc.edu

 

Bare bones course syllabus

Course calendar

Gradebook

Course textbook

     Subatomic Physics, 3rd edition

     Ernest M. Henley and Alejandro Garcia

Post-use of review of Subatomic Physics submitted to American Journal of Physics

Other books:

     Introduction to High Energy Physics, 4th edition

     Donald H. Perkins