Chapter 8: Modern Physics: New Science to Study the Universe

Chapter 8 opening
Chapter sections:
  • 8.1 Blackbody Radiation and Planck’s Energy Quanta
  • 8.2 The Life of Albert Einstein
  • 8.3 The Special Theory of Relativity
  • 8.4 The Doppler Effect of Light
  • 8.5 Einstein’s Explanation of Planck’s Energy Quanta
  • 8.6 Bohr’s Atom
  • 8.7 Quantum Mechanics: What Are the Chances?
  • 8.8 The Nucleus and Isotopes
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Image: An artist’s depiction of jets of material coming from a supermassive black hole at the center of a spiral galaxy. (ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0)

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