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3.00 Credits
PQ: PHYS 23400, and PHYS 22100 or MATH 20500. This course develops a statistical description of physical systems. Topics include elements of probability theory, equilibrium and fluctuations, thermodynamics, canonical ensembles, the equipartition theorem, quantum statistics of ideal gases, and kinetic theory. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: PHYS 23400. Open only to students who are majoring in Physics. Credit is granted in Spring Quarter after successful completion of the year's work. This is a yearlong laboratory course, offering experiments in atomic, molecular, solid-state, nuclear, and particle physics. As needed, additional material is presented in supplemental lectures. Content varies from quarter to quarter. Autumn, Winter, Spring. L.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: PHYS 14300, or PHYS 13300 and MATH 22000. Topics include linear algebra and tensor analysis, ordinary and partial differential equations, calculus of variations, special functions, series solutions of differential equations, and integral transforms. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: PHYS 13200 or 14200, and PHYS 22100 or MATH 20500. Topics include electrostatics, magnetostatics, electromagnetic induction, electric and magnetic fields in matter, plane electromagnetic waves, reflection and refraction of electromagnetic waves, and electromagnetic radiation. Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: PHYS 12200 or 13200 or 14200; or equivalent. The goal of this hands-on experimental course is to develop confidence, understanding, and design ability in modern electronics. This is not a course in the physics of semiconductors. In two lab sessions a week, we explore the properties of diodes, transistors, amplifiers, operational amplifiers, oscillators, field effect transistors, logic gates, digital circuits, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, phase-locked loops, and more. Lectures supplement the lab. Spring. L.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: PHYS 15400, and PHYS 22100 or MATH 20400. A study of wave-particle duality leading to the basic postulates of quantum mechanics is presented. Topics include the uncertainty principle, applications of the Schr dinger equation in one and three dimensions, the quantum harmonic oscillator, rotational invariance and angular momentum, the hydrogen atom, and spin. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: PHYS 23400. A review of quantum mechanics is presented, with emphasis on Hilbert space, observables, and eigenstates. Topics include spin and angular momentum, time-independent perturbation theory, fine and hyperfine structure of hydrogen, the Zeeman and Stark effects, many-electron atoms, molecules, the Pauli exclusion principle, and radiative transitions. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: PHYS 23500 and 19700. Topics include a review of quantum statistics, crystal structure and crystal binding, lattice vibrations and phonons, liquid helium, the free-electron model of metals, the nearly-free-electron model, semi-conductors, and optical properties of solids. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: PHYS 23500. This course covers topics such as nuclear structure, processes of transformation, observables of the nucleus, passage of nuclear radiation through matter, accelerators and detectors, photons, leptons, mesons, and baryons, hadronic interactions, and the weak interaction. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: PHYS 23500. This course is an introduction to modern atomic physics. Topics include atomic structure, fundamental symmetries in atoms, interactions of atoms with radiation, laser spectroscopy, trapping and cooling, Bose-Einstein condensates, and quantum information. Spring.
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