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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: PHYS 1310, 1320, and Mathematics 2210 or equivalent. Electrostatic fields in a vacuum, dielectric materials, solutions to Laplace’s and Poisson’s equations, currents, magnetic fields, vector potentials, electromagnetic induction, relation to Special Relativity, Maxwell’s equations, and the properties of classical electromagnetic waves.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: PHYS 2350/2360 or instructor approval. Quantum physics, electronics and energy bands in crystals, electronic transport in materials, photoconductivity, Hall effect, quantum Hall effect, superconductors and their applications, magnetic properties of material and their applications, thermal properties of materials and dielectric properties of materials. (Same as ENGP 3700, PHYS 6700.)
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: PHYS 1310, 1320, and MATH 2210. Newtonian mechanics, oscillations, central force motion, special theory of relativity, dynamics of rigid bodies, and the Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics.
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1.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: Junior standing or departmental approval. A series of undergraduate and faculty seminars emphasizing topics and points of view not covered in the standard curriculum, but which are nonetheless important to the education of a physicist. Note: Required of all majors.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Special topics in physics depending upon faculty and student interest.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: PHYS 1210 and 1220, or 1310 and 1320. A study of the physical properties of matter where temperature is an important variable. The laws of thermodynamics, equations of state, thermodynamic potentials. Kinetic theory of gases. Elementary statistical postulates. Ensembles, the partition function. Entropy, phase transitions.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Rosensteel. Pre-requisite: PHYS 2350 and Mathematics 2210. The postulates of quantum mechanics, Schroedinger equation, operator methods, angular momentum, fermion and boson systems, and Heisenberg formulations, applications to simple physical systems.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: PHYS 1210 and 1220, or 1310 and 1320, integral and differential calculus, PHYS 3630 recommended but not required. Geometrical, physical and quantum optics, with an emphasis on the classical electromagnetic aspects of optics pertaining to scattering, reflection, refraction, dispersion, polarization and interference. Applications to optical instruments, spectroscopy, interferometry, and Fourier optics.
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0.00 Credits
Satisfies: Capstone requirement for majors.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. MacLaren, Prof. McGuire. Pre-requisite: Approval of instructor. Mathematical techniques used in theoretical physics. Topics include partial differential equations, orthogonal coordinate systems, separation of variables, introduction to ordinary differential equations, series solutions and convergence; Sturm Liouville theory, eigensystems and orthogonal functions; complex variables, Taylor and Laurent series, contour integration, integration by steepest descents, and conformal mappings.
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