CollegeTransfer.Net

Course Criteria

Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.

  • Ph 1 abc: Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    The first year of a two-year course in introductory classical and modern physics. Topics: Newtonian mechanics in Ph 1 a; electricity and magnetism, and special relativity, in Ph 1 b, c. Emphasis on physical insight and problem solving. Ph 1 b, c is divided into two tracks: the Practical Track emphasizing practical electricity, and the Analytic Track, which teaches and uses methods of multivariable calculus. Students enrolled in the Practical Track are encouraged to take Ph 8 bc concurrently. Students will be given information helping them to choose a track at the end of fall term. Instructors: Patterson, Spriropulu, Filippone, Politzer.
    SharePh 1 abc - Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism
    Favorite

  • Ph 10: Frontiers in Physics

    3.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    Weekly seminar by a member of the physics department or a visitor, to discuss his or her research at an introductory level; the other class meetings will be used to explore background material related to seminar topics and to answer questions that arise. The course will also help students find faculty sponsors for individual research projects. Graded pass/fail. Instructor: Prince.
    SharePh 10 - Frontiers in Physics
    Favorite

  • Ph 101: Order-of-Magnitude Physics

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    Emphasis will be on using basic physics to understand complicated systems. Examples will be selected from properties of materials, geophysics, weather, planetary science, astrophysics, cosmology, biomechanics, etc. Instructor: Phinney.
    SharePh 101 - Order-of-Magnitude Physics
    Favorite

  • Ph 103: Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    This course will review the basic spectroscopy of atoms and molecules, with applications to astrophysics, the terrestrial atmosphere, and the laboratory. Species to be discussed include hydrogen and simple multielectron atoms such as carbon, diatomic and polyatomic molecules, and some solids. Mechanisms and effects determining linewidths and lineshapes will be discussed for laboratory, atmospheric, and astrophysical conditions. Instructor: Phillips. Prerequisite:    Instructor’s permission.
    SharePh 103 - Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy
    Favorite

  • Ph 104: Relativistic Astrophysics

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    This course is designed primarily for junior and senior undergraduates in astrophysics and physics. It covers the physics of black holes and neutron stars, including accretion, particle acceleration and gravitational waves, as well as their observable consequences: (neutron stars) pulsars, magnetars, X-ray binaries, gamma-ray bursts; (black holes) X-ray transients, tidal disruption and quasars/active galaxies and sources of gravitational waves. Interested students are encouraged to take Ay 125. Instructor: Phinney.
    SharePh 104 - Relativistic Astrophysics
    Favorite

  • Ph 105: Analog Electronics for Physicists

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    A laboratory course focusing on practical electronic circuits, with emphasis on analog electronics. The following topics are studied: RC circuits, electrical oscillations, operational amplifiers, diodes and transistors, combining circuit elements, and computer data acquisition. The course culminates in a two-week project of the student’s choosing. Instructors: Rice, Sannibale, Libbrecht. Prerequisite:    Ph 1 abc, Ph 3, or equivalents (Ph 8 may be substituted for Ph 3).
    SharePh 105 - Analog Electronics for Physicists
    Favorite

  • Ph 106 abc: Topics in Classical Physics

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    An intermediate course in the application of basic principles of classical physics to a wide variety of subjects. Roughly half of the year will be devoted to mechanics, and half to electromagnetism. Topics include Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of mechanics, small oscillations and normal modes, boundary-value problems, multipole expansions, and various applications of electromagnetic theory. Instructors: Cross, Golwala. Prerequisite:    Ph 2 ab or Ph 12 abc, Ma 2.
    SharePh 106 abc - Topics in Classical Physics
    Favorite

  • Ph 107: Writing about Scientific Research

    9.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    This will be a hands-on course in which students learn how to write a long essay or a book explaining complex scientific research. The course will focus on learning to write clearly and compellingly, to rewrite and edit, and, especially, to find one’s own writing voice. In the first part of the course, students will read, analyze, and critique published works, including some early drafts of well-known books. Together, we will study different writing styles; how chapters, articles, and books are structured; and basic narrative techniques and their execution. In the second part of the course students will select a cutting-edge scientific research topic to write about and produce a book chapter on that topic. Students’ works-in-progress will be analyzed each week in class. The finished chapters will be included in a manuscript for a book one might call The Caltech Student’s Guide to the Most Awesome Cutting Edge Science, 2012. Limited enrollment. Instructor: Mlodinow.
    SharePh 107 - Writing about Scientific Research
    Favorite

  • Ph 11 abc: Research Tutorial

    6.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    A small number of students will be offered the opportunity to enroll in this tutorial, the purpose of which is to demonstrate how research ideas arise, and are evaluated and tested, and how those ideas that survive are developed, This is accomplished by doing individual, original projects. There will be weekly group meetings and individual tutorial meetings with the instructor. Support for summer research at Caltech between freshman and sophomore years will be automatic for those students making satisfactory progress. Graded pass/fail. Freshmen only; limited enrollment. Instructor: Tombrello.
    SharePh 11 abc - Research Tutorial
    Favorite

  • Ph 115: Physics of Momentum Transport in Hydrodynamic Systems

    12.00 Credits
    California Institute of Technology

    Contemporary research in many areas of physics requires some knowledge of the principles governing hydrodynamic phenomena such as nonlinear wave propagation, symmetry breaking in pattern forming systems, phase transitions in fluids, Langevin dynamics, micro- and optofluidic control, and biological transport at low Reynolds number. This course offers students of pure and applied physics a self-contained treatment of the fundamentals of momentum transport in hydrodynamic systems. Mathematical techniques will include formalized dimensional analysis and rescaling, asymptotic analysis to identify dominant force balances, similitude, self-similarity and perturbation analysis for examining unidirectional and Stokes flow, pulsatile flows, capillary phenomena, spreading films, oscillatory flows, and linearly unstable flows leading to pattern formation. Students must have working knowledge of vector calculus, ODEs, PDEs, complex variables and basic tensor analysis. Advanced solution methods will be taught in class as needed. Second term is APh/Ph/Ae 116. Instructor: Troian.
    SharePh 115 - Physics of Momentum Transport in Hydrodynamic Systems
    Favorite
To find college, community college and university courses by keyword, enter some or all of the following, then select the Search button.
(Type the name of a College, University, Exam, or Corporation)
(For example: Accounting, Psychology)
(For example: ACCT 101, where Course Prefix is ACCT, and Course Number is 101)
(For example: Introduction To Accounting)
(For example: Sine waves, Hemingway, or Impressionism)
Distance:
of
(For example: Find all institutions within 5 miles of the selected Zip Code)