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3.00 Credits
Cross-listed under chemistry as CH 220, this lecture/lab course introduces students to a range of physical and chemical techniques used to monitor and assess the sources, level, and flux of pollutants in the environment.The course considers the specific pollution sources, pathways by which pollutants travel through the ecosystem, the deleterious effects of pollution, and approaches to pollution prevention and remediation.The lectures present a review of the relevant physical and chemical processes whereby pollutants enter and affect the ecosystem.The lab component gives students hands-on experience in environmental sample collection, analysis, and data interpretation, and features the use of sophisticated analytical instrumentation.(Prerequisites: CH 11-12) Four credits.
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Starting with a review of electromagnetic wave theory and the differential wave equation, this course covers the propagation of light from a scattering and an electromagnetic wave phenomena point of view.The course investigates superposition, polarization, interference, and diffraction in detail and discusses the photon theory of light along with the photoelectric effect.The course covers the basic theory of coherence with its contemporary application to lasers and additional selected topics in applied optical devices.It stresses the application of theory to devices and observations, and requires completion of the complementary lab course, PS 203.(Prerequisite: PS 271) Three credits.
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The formulation of classical mechanics represents a major milestone in our intellectual and technological history as the first mathematical abstraction of physical theory from empirical observations.This achievement is rightly accorded to Isaac Newton, who first translated the interpretation of various physical observations into a compact mathematical theory.More than three centuries of experience indicate that mechanical behavior in the everyday domain can be understood from Newton's theories.Topics in this course include elementary dynamics in one and two dimensions, gravitational forces and potentials, free and forced harmonic oscillations, central fields and the motions of planets and satellites, Lagrange's and Hamilton's equations, small oscillations, and normal mode analysis.(Prerequisite: PS 15-16 or PS 83-84) Three credits.
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Thermodynamics, viewed primarily as the science that deals with energy transformations and the relationships between properties of systems, is a fairly modern science.As its name implies, thermodynamics deals with heat and power; originally, this now broad subject dealt almost exclusively with heat engines.This course begins with a review of the three fundamental laws of thermodynamics.Additional topics include the kinetic theory of gasses and modern statistical mechanics.(Prerequisite: PS 285) Three credits.
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This lecture course covers the foundations of electric and magnetic phenomena.Topics include electrostatics and the concepts of the electric field, flux, and potential; Coulomb's law and Gauss's law and their applications; vector and scaler fields and vector operators; electric energy of systems of charges; dipole fields and Laplace's equation; moving charges and currents; Ampere's law; and magnetic fields and forces.(Prerequisites: PS 15-16 or PS 83-84 and MA 125, MA 126, MA 227, MA 228) Three credit
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This course introduces modern physics, i.e., the physics of the 20th century.The basic ideas that led to the formulation of quantum mechanics together with Einstein's theories of relativity provided a means to explore many new aspects of the physical world.This course examines the discovery of quanta of energy; Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity; the Bohr model of the atom; wave mechanics, angular momentum, and spin; various aspects of quantum mechanics that explain much of the subatomic world; and aspects of atomic and nuclear physics including solid-state physics and superconductivity.The course also examines several of the major experimental observations that support and confirm these new theories.(Prerequisites: PS 15-16 or PS 83-84) Three credits.
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This lecture course continues PS 271, covering additional topics in electric and magnetic phenomena.Topics include Farady's laws and induced electromotive force; electric and magnetic fields in matter; methods of solving boundary value problems; Maxwell's equations in integral and differential form; electromagnetic radiation and wave propagation; and Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity for electrodynamics.(Prerequisite: PS 271) Three credits
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the physical concepts and mathematical formulations of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics.Topics include the Schrodinger wave equation, Fourier techniques and expectation values, operator formalism, angular momentum, central forces, matrix representations, and approximation methods.(Prerequisites: PS 285, PS 226, MA 228, MA 321, MA 322) Four credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the following content: condensed matter physics, numerical analysis and computational physics, and wave phenomena and quantum phenomena.Condensed matter topics include mechanical, thermal, and electric properties of matter; magnetism; superconductivity; and magnetic resonance.Topics in numerical analysis and computational physics include solutions of differential equations, boundary value and eigenvalue problems, special functions and Gaussian quadrature, and matrix operations.Topics in wave phenomena include electric and mechanical oscillators, coupled oscillators, transverse and longitudinal waves, waves on transmission lines, and electromagnetic waves.Quantum phenomena include advanced topics in quantum mechanics with applications in the structure of nuclei, atoms, molecules, metals, crystal lattices, semiconductors, and superconductors.(Prerequisites: PS 15-16 or PS 83-84, PS 285) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides opportunities for intensive investigation - experimental or theoretical - of selected topics at an advanced level under the guidance of a faculty member.Participation in this course is required of all seniors.Credit by arrangement.
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