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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Advanced standing with at least nine completed hours of physics at or above the 3000 level. Physics majors are introduced to the experimental techniques used in research. A student will choose and do several special problems during the semester. Six hours of laboratory per week.
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Prerequisite: PHYSICS 3223. A study of modern optics including diffraction theory, polarization, light propagation in solids, quantum optics, and coherence. Three classroom hours per week.
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Prerequisites: PHYSICS 3200 and 3231. Photons and the wave nature of particles; wave mechanics, the Schroedinger equation, operator and matrix formulations, and Dirac notation; applications to single particle systems, atomic physics, and spectroscopy. Three classroom hours per week.
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Prerequisite: PHYSICS 4331. Application of Schr?dinger's equation to hydrogen-like atoms; atomic structure and spectra; nuclear masses, energy levels; alpha, beta, and gamma radiation, nuclear reactions, and models of the nucleus. Three classroom hours per week.
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Prerequisites: MATH 2000 and PHYSICS 3231. Introduction to statistical mechanics, classical thermodynamics and kinetic theory. Three classroom hours per week.
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Prerequisites: PHYSICS 3221, 3223, 3231, and 4341. Topics include special phenomena from research areas such as scattering of waves, biophysics, nonlinear physics, geophysical fluid dynamics and the atmospheric sciences treated by methods of advanced mechanics, thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. Three classroom hours per week.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYSICS 3231, BIOL 1811, BIOL 1821. An introduction to the application of physical principles to problems in medical physics and biology, with a particular focus on the biophysics of various technologies for imaging both human patients and biological macromolecules. Topics covered will include the principles of X-ray crystallography, metabolic and optical changes in the brain, NMR and fMRI, magnetoencephalography, PET imaging, the electrophysiology of EEG and ECG, dynamics in the body and brain, and dynamics in genetics. Laboratory projects on brain imaging and data analysis are an integral part of the course. Three classroom hours and two laboratory hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CMP SCI 1250, plus PHYSICS 3221, 3223, and 3231. Computer analysis in physics; solutions of eigenvalue problems; coupled differential equations. Three classroom hours per week.
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Prerequisite: PHYSICS 4331. Theoretical and experimental aspects of solid state physics, including one- dimensional band theory of solids; electron emission from metals and semiconductors; electrical and thermal conductivity of solids. Three classroom hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYSICS 3221, 3223, and 4341, or consent of instructor. Dynamical theory of gases and liquids. Course covers the mathematical development of physical fluid dynamics with contemporary applications. Three classroom hours per week.
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