Description
Contents of this book
Dual Nature of Matter
- Photoelectric effect.
- Hertz and Lenard’s observations.
- Einstein’s photoelectric equation-particle nature of light.
- Matter waves-wave nature of particles, de Broglie relation.
- Davisson-Germer experiment (experimental details should be omitted; only conclusion should be explained).
Atom and Nuclei
- Alpha-particle scattering experiment
- Rutherford’s model of atom.
- Bohr model, energy levels, hydrogen spectrum.
- Composition and size of nucleus.
- Radioactivity, alpha, beta and gamma particles/rays and their properties.
- Radioactive decay law.
- Mass-energy relation, mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number.
- Nuclear fission and Nuclear fusion.
Jasminder Jeet Singh –
The book is very good and informative