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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: junior or senior standing in physics and consent of the chair. Professional physics work in industry or government, to provide an in-depth experience. Written report is required. May be repeated once for credit. Units: 1-3
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: upper-division standing and consent of chair. Students learn through teaching, increase mastery of subject matter, develop awareness of teaching problems and competence in teaching techniques. Consult "Student-to-Student Tutorials" in this catalog for more complete course description.Units: 1-3
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: approval of study plan by department chair and instructor. Topic in physics, selected in consultation with and completed under the supervision of the instructor. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of six units. Units: 1-3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Physics 300. Advanced techniques in mathematical physics: calculus of variation, coordinate transformations, tensor analysis, special functions, series solutions of differential equations, orthogonal functions, partial differential equations, numerical techniques for the solution of differential equations, complex variables, integral transforms, probability, Monte Carlo methods. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Physics 310 or equivalent upper-division thermodynamics, Physics 510; Physics 520 recommended. Fundamental principles of classical and quantum statistics. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Physics 330 and 510. Advanced techniques for solution of problems in classical mechanics: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of the equations of motion, variation techniques, conservation theorems, canonical transformations, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, numerical techniques, selected applications. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Physics 330. Corequisite: Physics 510. Classical electro-magnetic theory: boundary value problems in electrostatics, multipoles, electrostatics of macroscopic media, magnetostatics, time-varying fields, Maxwell's equations, plane electromagnetic waves, and wave propagation. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Physics 510 and 530A. Advanced electromagnetic theory: wave guides and cavities, radiating systems, scattering, diffraction, relativistic effects, collisions between charged particles, radiation from moving charges, multipole fields, radiation damping, absorption and radiation by sound systems. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Physics 340 and Physics 455 recommended. Corequisite: Physics 510. Principles and techniques of modern quantum mechanics, applications to simple three-dimensional systems, properties of angular momentum. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Physics 510 and 555A. Corequisite: Physics 520. Advanced topics in quantum physics: scattering theory, electron spin, perturbation theory and applications, approximation methods for time dependent problems, systems of identical particles. Units: 3
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