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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and senior standing. Physics problems selected by instructor for considered and mature analysis. Written and 10-minute oral reports required.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Study of literature about research methods in physics. May be repeated to a maximum of 2 units; only 1 unit may be applied to the Master of Science in Physics. Letter grade only (A-F).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHYS 310. Variational principles, Lagrange's equations, Hamilton's equations, canonical transformations, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, relativistic mechanics and small oscillation theory. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 4 hrs.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHYS 340A. Prerequisite/Corequisite: MATH 370A or MATH 364A. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 410; graduates enroll in PHYS 515.) Lorentz transformation, relativistic kinematics and dynamics, 4-vectors and tensors, transformation of electric and magnetic fields, covariant form of Maxwell's equations, introduction to general relativity. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-discussion 3 hrs.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 310, 320, 350. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 422; graduates enroll in PHYS 522.) Entropy and temperature, Boltzmann distribution and Helmholtz free energy, thermal radiation, chemical potential, Gibbs distribution, ideal gas, Fermi and Bose gases, heat and work, Gibbs free energy and chemical reactions, phase transformations and kinetic theory. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-discussion 3 hrs.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 310, 320, and 340A or consent of the instructor. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 434; graduates enroll in PHYS 534.) Topics in astrophysics. A particular semester schedule might include one or two topics from: Stellar interiors and evolution, radiative transfer and stellar atmospheres, relativistic cosmology, galaxy formation, accretion disk physics and quasars. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHYS 340B. Boundary-value problems, applications of special functions to electro/magnetostatics, Green's function techniques, multipole expansion of electrostatic field, dielectric media, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves.Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 540A. Covariant formalism, simple radiating systems, radiation by moving charges, and topics in electrodynamics chosen from the following: wave guides, magnetohydrodynamics, thermodynamics and electrodynamics of continuous media, and radiation reaction. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 254; PHYS 450 or consent of instructor. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 445; graduates enroll in PHYS 545.) Modern physical measurement techniques including scanning probe microscopy and pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance. Noise and fluctuations in physical measurements. Low noise measurement techniques including lock-in amplifier, gated integrator and boxcar averager, bridge circuits, convolution, auto-and cross-correlation and FFT. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs, laboratory 3 hrs)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 254; PHYS 450 or consent of instructor. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 446; graduates enroll in PHYS 546.) Modern physical measurement techniques in condensed matter physics in high magnetic fields and low temperatures. Examples are temperature and magnetic field effects in magnetic materials, Meissner effect and superconducting transition temperature in superconductors, and mobility and Hall effect in semiconductors. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs.)
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