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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Physics 227 and 300. Wave propagation. Fourier optics, introduction to spatial filtering and image enhancement, lasers, analytical ray tracing, matrix methods in optics. Units: 3
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Description: Prerequisites: Physics 227 and 300. Physics 310 recommended. Solar system physics, including physical principles underlying current experiments in planetary science and space physics. Solar physics; planetary dynamics; experimental probes of planetary surfaces, interiors and atmospheres; physical constraints on theories of the solar system origin. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Physics 227 and Physics 300. The disciplines of thermodynamics statistical mechanics and kinetic theory (and their applications); their unifying microscopic foundation. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Physics 227 and 300. The physical properties of matter in the solid state, as explained by atomic theory. Crystal structure, thermal, electric and magnetic properties of metals, semi-conductors, band theory and solid state devices. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Physics 227 and 300. The concepts and theory of quantum physics. Early quantum theories, the Schroedinger equation, Eigenvalue equations, operators, commutation properties, applications to simple quantum systems, angular momentum. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: upper-division standing in physics and consent of instructor and department chair. An advanced lecture course covering a field of physics of current interest not covered in other courses, such as plasma physics, superconductivity, solid state devices, fiber optics and photonics, astrophysics, subatomic physics. May be repeated for credit with a different topic. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Physics 227 and 300. Operating characteristics of transistors and semiconductor diodes. Linear circuit theory for alternating currents and for transient currents. Switching and pulse circuits. Digital electronics. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Physics 340. Theory of atoms and small molecules including perturbation methods. Topics include the interaction of atoms and molecules with electric and magnetic fields and electromagnetic radiation, angular momentum coupling, anti-symmetrization, and the spectroscopy of atoms and simple diatomic methods. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Physics 227; Physics 380 recommended. Techniques and methods of experimental physics including: use of sensors, transducers, time series, power spectra, phase sensitive detection, computer interfacing and signal conditioning. Experiments cover several areas of physics. (1 hour lecture, 6 hours laboratory). Instructional fee required. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Physics 227 and 300. Physics 380 and 411 recommended. Experiments in optics, including: Fourier optics, holography, fiber optics, diffraction, interferometry, laser physics, light scattering, optical detection including photon counting and photographic techniques. (1 hour lecture, 6 hours laboratory). Instructional fee required. Units: 3
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