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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: PHY 2180, MAT 2030. Introduction to mathematical tools used in advanced courses in physics. (F)
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: PHY 2180, PHY 5100. Introduction to fundamental ideas: Newton's laws, notions of momentum, angular momentum, kinetic and potential energy, mechanical energy, conservation laws, motion in 1- and 3-D, friction and retardation forces, oscillations, resonances, and gravitation. (F)
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: PHY 5200 and MAT 2150. Accelerated reference frames, centrifugal and Coriolis forces, rigid body dynamics, motion of tops and gyroscopes, Lagrange's equations, constraints, Lagrange multipliers, general central force problem, stability of orbits, relativistic mechanics. (W)
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: PHY 2140 or PHY 2180, MAT 2030; coreq. for PHY majors: PHY 5341. Electromagnetic radiation; geometrical, physical, and modern optics. (F)
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. or coreq: PHY 5340 or ECE 5760. Experiments involving geometrical, physical, and quantum optics. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (F)
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: PHY 3300, PHY 5100. Notions of temperature, equation of state, internal energy, the three Laws of Thermodynamics, Carnot's theory, entropy, thermodynamic potentials, kinetic theory, partition function, heat capacity of solids, thermodynamics of radiation, Fermi-Dirac gases. (F)
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: PHY 2180 or 2140 or consent of instructor. Amplifier circuits, operational amplifiers, oscillators, digital electronics, analog and digital measurements. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (W)
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: junior standing and consent of adviser and instructor. Primarily for students who wish to continue in a field beyond material covered in regular courses, or who wish to study material not covered in regular courses, including certain research participation. (T)
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: PHY 5340. Coherent radiation, laser physics and optical devices, optical techniques in experimental science, topics in modern optics. (B:W)
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: PHY 3300, PHY 5100, MAT 2150. Operators and their eigenfunctions, quantization rules, solution of Schroedinger equation in 1- and 3-D, the hydrogen atom, angular momentum, spin, boson, fermions, Time-independent perturbation theory. (W)
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