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3.00 Credits
This course presents the current understanding of high-impact weather and geologic events and an introduction to risk assessment and mitigation. Topics include an overview of geography, statistics, and societal impacts of the world's natural hazards; physics and forecasts of hurricanes, extratropical cyclones, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, droughts, floods, wildfires, and landslides; climate change and weather events; quantifying risks; and successful examples of community- and national-level disaster prevention programs. N. Nakamura. Winter. L.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Any 10000-level general education sequence in chemistry, geophysical sciences, physical sciences, or physics. In this course, we study what is known about our galaxy, the Milky Way. We discuss its size, shape, composition, location among its neighbors, motion, how it evolves, and where we are located within it, with an emphasis on how we know what we claim to know. N. Gnedin. Winter. L.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Any 10000-level general education sequence in chemistry, geophysical sciences, physical sciences, or physics. This course discusses how the laws of nature allow us to understand the origin, evolution, and large-scale structure of the universe. After a review of the history of cosmology, we see how discoveries in the twentieth century (i.e., the expansion of the universe and the cosmic background radiation) form the basis of the hot Big Bang model. Within the context of the Big Bang, we learn how our universe evolved from the primeval fireball. A. Olinto. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Any 10000-level general education sequence in chemistry, geophysical sciences, physical sciences, or physics. With the advent of modern observational techniques (e.g., radio, satellite astronomy), it has become possible to study free atoms, molecules, and dust in the vast space between the stars. The observation of interstellar matter provides information on the physical and chemical conditions of space and on the formation and evolution of stars. D. Harper. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Second-year standing. This is a one-year sequence in the fundamentals of physics. Topics include classical mechanics, fluids, electricity and magnetism, wave motion, optics, and modern physics. Autumn, Winter, Spring. L.
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2.00 Credits
PQ: For all three variants, a first-year calculus sequence (MATH 13100-13200-13300, 15100-15200-15300, or 16100-16200-16300) and appropriate placement recommendation. (NOTE: MATH 15100-15200-15300 or 16100-16200-16300 may be taken concurrently.) Calculus is used in all three sequences. The first two courses of any sequence meet the general education requirement in physical sciences. Although the essential physics content of these variants is similar, PHYS 13100-13200-13300 and 14100-14200-14300 prepare students for further courses in the Department of Physics, while PHYS 12100-12200-12300 includes a broader emphasis on interdisciplinary applications, such as in biology. Two sections of Variant B (PHYS 13100-13200-13300) are offered.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced knowledge of mathematics recommended. This is a one-year sequence in the fundamentals of physics. Topics include classical mechanics, special relativity, electricity and magnetism, wave motion, optics, and heat. Autumn, Winter, Spring. L.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced knowledge of mathematics and good high school physics course helpful. This course is recommended for students who are majoring in Physics. This is a one-year sequence in the fundamentals of physics. Topics include classical mechanics, special relativity, electricity and magnetism, wave motion, optics, and heat. Multivariable and vector calculus is used. Autumn, Winter, Spring. L.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: PHYS 14300, or PHYS 13300 and MATH 22000. This course is an introduction to quantum physics. Topics include Einstein's quantum theory of light, the wave nature of particles, atomic structure, the Schr dinger equation, quantum mechanics in one and three dimensions, barrier penetration and tunneling, and the hydrogen atom. Applications to nuclear and solid-state physics are presented. Autumn. L.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: PHYS 13100 or 14100, and PHYS 22100 or MATH 20300. Topics include a review of Newtonian mechanics, the calculus of variations, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, generalized coordinates, canonical momenta, phase space, constrained systems, central-force motion, non-inertial reference frames, and rigid-body motion. Winter.
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