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Snodgrass Content: Introduction to cosmology. Cosmological models throughout history. Interplay between observations and basic principles: looking out in space and back in time. Development of modern cosmology from Newton through Einstein, including the theories of special and general relativity. Properties of light and gravitation, stars, stellar evolution, black holes, galaxies, and the large-scale structure of the universe. Present-day observations and models: Hubble space telescope, big bang, microwave background radiation, and cosmological red shift. In-depth discussion of the standard (Einstein-DeSitter) model. The ultimate fate of the universe. For majors and nonmajors. Prerequisites: Physics 105, 110, 141 or 151, or consent of instructor. Prior introductory physics or astronomy. Comfort with mathematics at the level of elementary functions is requested. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Olsen, Staff Content: Introduction to electricity, magnetism, and their interactions. Electric fields and electric potentials. Phenomena of capacitance, currents, circuits. Forces on moving charges described in terms of the magnetic field. Effects of time-varying electric and magnetic fields, in both vacuum and matter: induction, alternating current circuits, electromagnetic waves. Prerequisites: Physics 151. Mathematics 233 or Physics 202 (may be taken concurrently). Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Broide Content: The phenomena of heat from macroscopic and microscopic viewpoints. Temperature, equilibrium, thermal energy, internal energy, heat flow, entropy, extraction of work from engines. Phenomena described macroscopically by the laws of thermodynamics and microscopically by densities of accessible states, probabilities, ensembles, distribution functions. Application to the condensed states of matter and transport phenomena. Prerequisites: Physics 152. Mathematics 233 or Physics 202. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Broide, Tufte Content: Experiments of a significant historical nature or emphasizing important laboratory techniques. Students design and conduct two experiments per semester. Attendance at weekly physics colloquium required. Prerequisite: Physics 201 or 202 or consent of instructor. Taught: Each semester, 2 semester credits.
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Snodgrass, Tufte Content: First semester of an upper-division modern physics and quantum mechanics course. Bohr atom, DeBroglie waves, orbitals, Zeeman effect, spectroscopy, wave packets, Schrodinger equation in one dimension, eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, operators, harmonic oscillator, Schrodinger equation in three dimensions, angular momentum, hydrogen atom. Prerequisites: Mathematics 225 and 235. Physics 152. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Olsen Content: Mathematical theory of static electromagnetic fields in vacuum. The forces due to electric charges and currents in terms of electric and magnetic vector fields. The derivation of electric and magnetic fields from scalar and vector potential fields. Boundary-value techniques for the solution of the equations of LaPlace and Poisson: potential fields in the presence of various configurations of charges and currents. The summary of all aspects of electromagnetism in terms of Maxwell's equations. Prerequisites: Physics 202 or Mathematics 233. Physics 251. Mathematics 235. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Olsen, Snodgrass Content: Mathematical theory of static and dynamic electromagnetic fields, including electromagnetic fields in matter. The contribution of induced charges and currents to the electric and magnetic fields in matter. The prediction of electromagnetic waves from Maxwell's equations. The propagation of these waves in vacuum, bulk matter, and waveguides. The radiation of accelerated charges. Prerequisite: Physics 331. Taught: alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Staff Content: Application of physics concepts and techniques to the understanding of specific systems. Topic chosen from the following: astrophysics, atomic physics, molecular spectroscopy, solid state physics, optics, fluids, particle physics, cosmology. Prerequisite: Physics 252 or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, contingent on student interest and faculty availability, 4 semester credits.
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Broide, Tufte Content: Experiments of a significant historical nature or emphasizing important laboratory techniques. Students design and conduct two experiments per semester. Attendance at weekly physics colloquium required. Prerequisite: Physics 300. Taught: Each semester, 2 semester credits.
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Snodgrass Content: Continuation of Physics 321. Interactions of electrons with electromagnetic fields, matrices, spin, addition of angular momenta, time-independent perturbation theory, helium spectra, fine structure of atoms, molecules, timedependent perturbation theory, radiation. Prerequisite: Physics 321. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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