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1.50 Credits
Higdon This course is a comprehensive introduction to the application of computational techniques to physics and engineering. It provides direct experience in using computers to model physical systems and it develops a minimum set of algorithms needed to create physics and engineering simulations on a computer. Such algorithms are employed to solve nontrivial, real world problems through the investigation of seven major projects. Students will use MatLab computer mathematical software. No prior computer course is assumed. Prerequisites: Physics 33 and 34, or both semesters of the AISS sequence, and Mathematics 30 and 31. Enrollment limited to 12. Offered every spring semester.
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1.50 Credits
Naftilan The applications of classical mechanics to statics and dynamics of rigid bodies, central force motions, and oscillators. Numerical analysis, Lagrangian methods, and nonlinear approximation techniques will be used. Prerequisites: Physics 33 and Mathematics 111. Enrollment limited to 20. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Choi A course emphasizing techniques of visual, photographic, and electronic observations of astronomical objects. Discussion of infrared and radio astronomy, as well as space-based UV and X-ray astronomy. Includes preparation for and data reductions of observations. Also includes original astronomical observations using both the Brackett Observatory and the 1-meter telescope at Table Mountain. Prerequisites: Astronomy 62po and Physics 30-31 (or equivalent), or permission of instructor. Offered jointly with HMC and Pomona College. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Jensen An upper division course in electrodynamics using analytical, but emphasizing numerical techniques to solve problems. Topics include electrostatic solutions using Laplace's and Poisson's equations, polarization,magnetostatics, magnetization, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, and electromagnetic radiation. Prerequisites: Physics 34, or both semesters of the AISS sequence, Physics 100 (or equivalent), and Mathematics 32, or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Higdon A survey with examples of modern numerical techniques for investigating a range of elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic partial differential equations central to a wide variety of applications in science, engineering, and other fields. Prerequisites: entry-level programming, differential equations, scientific computing or equivalent courses, or permission of instructor. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Gould An introductory examination of materials and their properties. Topics covered include: atomic packing and crystal structure, elastic and plastic deformation of metals, strengths of materials, ceramics, polymers, electric properties of semiconductors, piezoelectricity, paramagnetism and ferromagnetism. Prerequisites: Physics 33, 34, or both semesters of the AISS sequence. Enrollment limited to 20. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Higdon This course is a comprehensive introduction to programming using MatLab, the primary language of engineering computations. It covers control constructs, internal and external procedures, array manipulations, user-defined data structures, and recursion. These elements are used to develop some computational techniques in engineering. No prior computer experience is required. Enrollment limited to 24. Offered every fall semester.
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1.50 Credits
Jensen Introductory upper-level quantum mechanics using analytical, but emphasizing numerical methods to solve problems. Both Shrodinger's wave mechanics and Heisenberg's matrix formulation of quantum mechanics are used. Topics include: eigenvectors and eigenvalues tunneling, Koenig-Penney model, harmonic oscillator, WKB approximation, spin and Pauli matrices, hydrogen atom and Hatree-Falk approximation, Dirac notation, eigenvalue perturbation method: non-degenerate, degenerate, and time-dependent, Fermi's Golden rule and variational approximation. Prerequisites: Mathematics 110, and Physics 100 (or equivalent), or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Naftilan This course covers, at the junior-senior level, statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Standard topics include the laws of thermodynamics, kinetic theory, classical statistical mechanics and its connection to thermodynamics, quantum statistical mechanics and its applications. In addition, numerical techniques are implemented and used to solve realistic thermodynamics problems in the computer lab. Prerequisites: Physics 33, 34, or both semesters of the AISS sequence, and Physics 100 (or equivalent), and Mathematics 110. Enrollment limited to 20. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff The chemistry of organic compounds developed from considerations of bonding, structure, synthesis, and mechanisms of reaction. Selected applications of those principles to biological systems. Prerequisite: Chemistry 15 (or equivalent), or both semesters of the AISS sequence. (Chemistry 116 is prerequisite for 117). Laboratory fee $50 per semester. Offered every year.
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