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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: PHY 113 and PHY 114. Statics of particles, equilibrium of rigid bodies, centroids and centers of gravity, analysis of structures, friction, forces in beams and cables, moments of inertia, methods of virtual work.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: PHY 230. Kinematics of particles, systems of particles, kinematics of rigid bodies, plane motion of rigid bodies, mechanical vibrations.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Prerequisites: PHY 113, PHY 114, and MTH 142, or permission of instructor. The course provides the foundations necessary to assemble simple analog circuits and test them. A number of circuits employing diodes, transistors, field effect transistors, and operational amplifiers will be assembled on breadboards and tested in the laboratory. The course will have one period lecture and one laboratory session, each of two-hour duration, per week.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Prerequisites: PHY 112 or PHY 114, or permission of instructor. The course provides the foundations necessary to assemble simple digital logic circuits and test them. Microprocessors and microcomputers will be introduced and a variety of experiments based on computer architecture, computer interfacing, and data communications concepts will be performed. The course will have one period lecture and one laboratory session, each of two-hour duration, per week.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: PHY 112 or 114. Application of physics and natural sciences to environmental and pollution problems. Population growth models, world-resource-depletion models, and growth limits. The energy scenarios. Internal combustion, fossil fuel, and nuclear fuels. Water and air pollution. Conservation, ecotactics, and the role of agencies at various governmental levels.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisites: PHY 114 and 211. First and second laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic equilibrium, properties of gases and vapors, enthalpy, Helmholtz and Gibbs functions, refrigeration, gas power engines, gases and air water mixtures, combustion.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisites: PHY 112 or 114 and MTH 141. The course introduces a number of numerical techniques that are useful to solve a variety of physics problems. Topics include numerical integration, solutions to differential equations, Monte Carlo techniques and chaos. The course will have a number of problem-solving sessions in mechanics and electrodynamics involving calculus.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisites: PHY 216, 211, and MTH 142. A survey of physical optics. The electromagnetic spectrum, wave theory, lenses, mirrors, image formation, optical cavities, the superposition of waves, Fourier methods, polarization, interference, and diffraction. Ideas important to contemporary ideas in optics and lasers are stressed. A number of computer problems simulating the optical paths will be worked out in geometrical optics.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisites: Physics through PHY 264, MTH 142 and 244. Mathematical techniques as applied to physics problems. Ordinary and partial differential equations with emphasis on boundary value problems in electricity and magnetism; complex variables; LaPlace transforms; eigenvalue equations and special functions. PC-based numerical techniques.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Prerequisite: PHY 216. The course is designed to provide students with advanced modern laboratory experience. A number of experiments covering atomic, nuclear, solid state and optical physics will be performed. The students will get hands-on experience in modern experimental techniques and data acquisition and analysis procedures using computers.
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