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4.00 Credits
Introduction to analysis and reasoning. The concepts of argument, premise, and conclusion, validity and invalidity, consistency and inconsistency. Identifying and assessing premises and inferences. Deductive versus inductive reasoning, and introduction to the probability calculus. Evaluating definitions. Informal fallacies. Same as Logic and Philosophy of Science 29. ( V)
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the symbolism and methods of the logic of statements, including evaluation of arguments by truth tables, the techniques of natural deduction and semantic tableaux. Same as Logic and Philosophy of Science 30. ( V)
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4.00 Credits
Philosophical questions concerning the foundations of scientific inference, e.g., the traditional problem of induction, the Goodman paradox, the concept of cause, Mill's method of inductive reasoning, probability calculus, different interpretations of probability, and their interaction in inductive reasoning. Prerequisite: Philosophy 30 or 104. Same as Logic and Philosophy of Science 31. ( V)
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4.00 Credits
Lectures on selected topics at the lower-division level. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, six hours. Mathematical and numerical analysis using Mathematica and C programming, as applied to problems in physical science. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Concurrent with Physics 229A.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, six to ten hours. Introduces students to a variety of practical laboratory techniques, including lock-in, boxcar, coincidence counting, noise filtering, PID control, properties of common transducers, computer interfacing to instruments, vacuum technology, laboratory safety, basic mechanical design, and shop skills. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Concurrent with Physics 206 and Chemistry 206.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. One dimensional motion and oscillations; three-dimensional motion, non-inertial coordinates, conservation laws, and Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics; rigid body motion and relativity. Prerequisites: Physics 7E and 50; Mathematics 2J and 3D.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Electric, magnetic, and gravitational fields and potentials; electrodynamics; mechanical and electromagnetic waves and radiation. Prerequisites: Physics 7D and 50; Mathematics 2E.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Inadequacy of classical physics; time independent and time dependent Schrodinger equation; systems in one, two, and three dimensions; matrices; Hermitian operators; symmetries; angular momentum; perturbation theory; scattering theory; applications to atomic structure; emphasis on phenomenology. Prerequisites: Physics 111B and 112B.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Microscopic theory of temperature, heat, and entropy; kinetic theory; multicomponent systems; quantum statistics. Prerequisite: Physics 111A.
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