It includes a written paper and an oral presentation(power point), both contribute equally. Each will be graded on the 100-point base. For the written paper, choose two topics from the topic list (att

Topics covered in the PHYS 10 2 0 Course: Chapter Topics 22 • Coulomb’s Law • Electrical Forces and Charges • Conservation of Charge • Conductors and Insulators • Superconductors • Charging • Charge Polarization • Electric Field • Electric Potential • Electric Energy Storage 2 3 • Flow of Charge • Electric Current • Voltage Sources • Electrical Resistance • Ohm ’ s Law • Direct Current and Alternating Current • Speed and Source of Electrons in a Circuit • Electric Power • Light - Emitting Diodes (L E D s) • Electric Circuits 24 • Magnetic Forces • Magnetic Poles • Magnetic Fields • Magnetic Domains • Electric Currents and Magnetic Fields • Electromagnets • Magnetic Force on Moving Charges • Magnetic Force on Current - Carrying Wires • Earth ’ s Magnetic Field • Biomagnetism 25 • Electromagnetic Induction • Faraday’s Law • Generators and Alternating Current • Power Production • Self - Induction • Power Transmission • Field Induction 26 • Electromagnetic Waves • The Electromagnetic Spectrum • Transparent Materials • Opaque Materials • Seeing Light — The Eye 27 • Color in Our World • Selective Reflection • Selective Transmission • Mixing Colored Light • Mixing Colored Pigments • Why the Sky Is Blue • Why Sunsets Are Red • Why Clouds Are White • Why Water Is Greenish Blue 28 • Reflection • Principle of Least Time • Law of Reflection • Refraction • Cause of Refraction • Dispersion • Rainbows • Total Internal Reflection • Lenses • Lens Defects 29 • Huygens’ Principle • Diffraction • Superposition and Interference • Polarization • Holography 30 • Light Emission • Excitation • Emission Spectra • Incandescence • Absorption Spectra • Fluorescence • Phosphorescence • Lamps • Lasers 31 • Birth of Quantum Theory • Quantization and Planck’s Constant • The Photoelectric Effect • Wave – Particle Duality • Double - Slit Experiment • Particles as Waves: Electron Diffraction • Uncertainty Principle • Complementarity 32 • Discovery of the Atomic Nucleus • Discovery of the Electron • Atomic Spectra: Clues to Atomic Structure • Bohr’s Model of the Atom • Explanation of Quantized Energy Levels: Electron Waves • Quantum Mechanics • Correspondence Principle 33 • X - Rays and Radioactivity • Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Rays • Environmental Radiation • The Atomic Nucleus and the Strong Force • Radioactive Half - Life • Radiation Detectors • Transmutation of Elements • Radiometric Dating 34 • Nuclear Fission • Nuclear Fission Reactors • Breeder Reactor • Fission Power • Nuclear Fusion • Mass – Energy Equivalence , E=mc 2 • Controlling Fusion 35 • Motion Is Relative • Postulates of the Special Theory of Relativity • Simultaneity • Spacetime • Time Dilation • The Twin Trip • Addition of Velocities • Length Contraction • Relativistic Momentum • Mass, Energy, and E=mc 2 • The Correspondence Principle 36 • Reference Frames — Nonaccelerated and Accelerated • Principle of Equivalence • Bending of Light by Gravity • Gravity and Time: Gravitational Red Shift • Gravity and Space: Motion of Mercury • Gravity, Space, and a New Geometry • Gravitational Waves • Newtonian and Einsteinian Gravitation