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Course Criteria
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Advanced experimental techniques in various sub-fields of physics. Prerequisite: PH 310 or 311. Lab Fee: $40. Fall, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Research performed under direction of faculty member. Final research report required. All terms.
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3.00 Credits
States of model system, entropy and temperature, Boltzmann distribution, thermal radiation and Planck distribution, chemical potential and Gibbs distribution, ideal 332 gas, Fermi and Bose gases, heat and work, semiconductor statistics, kinetic theory. Prerequisite: PH 351. Prerequisite with concurrency: PH 301; PH 306 is suggested also. Spring, even years.
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3.00 Credits
Electrostatics: electric fields, electric potential, Poisson's equation. Electric fields in matter. Magnetostatics: currents, magnetic fields. Magnetic fields in matter. Prerequisites: PH 305, MA 201. Prerequisites with concurrency: MA 238 or 244. Fall, even years.
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of PH431. Maxwell's equations for time-varying fields. Electromagnetic waves. AC circuits. Radiation. Relativistic electrodynamics. Prerequisite: PH 431. Spring, odd years.
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3.00 Credits
Waves and particles; deBroglie waves, wave-packets and the uncertainty principle; postulates of quantum mechanics; Schrodinger's equation; simple systems in one, two and three dimensions; the hydrogen atom; angular momentum and spin. Prerequisites: PH 305 (or MA 238 or 244), PH 351. Suggested prerequisite with concurrency: PH 306. Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Multiparticle systems; atomic structure and spectrum; time-independent pertubation theory, variational methods; time-dependent pertubation theory and Interactions of light with matter; scattering theory; electronic structure of solids. Prerequisite: PH 451. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of elementary particle physics with emphasis on the Standard Model of quarks, leptons, and gauge bosons. Lorentz transformations, four-vectors and relativistic kinematics, angular momentum & spin. Lifetimes, cross-sections, and Feynman rules. Quantum electro- & chromo-dynamics, Dirac equation, renormalization. Physics beyond the Standard Model. Prerequisite with concurrency: PH 451. Fall, even years.
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3.00 Credits
Geometry as physics. Newtonian gravity, gravitational and inertial mass, equivalence principle, description of curved spacetime, geodesics, Schwarzchild solution. Tests of General Relativity. Gravitational collapse and black holes; rotation. Gravitational waves. The observed Universe and overview of cosmological models. Prerequisites with concurrency: PH 351, PH 301. Spring.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Offered upon demand. Topics include physics, optics, astrophysics, astronomy, computational physics, and space physics. Prerequisite: PH 113, MA 201. All terms.
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