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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. This course consists of individual or group work adjusted to meet particular needs in Physics. Approval must be secured from the instructor prior to registration. This course may be repeated for credit. (Fall, Winter)
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Research under direction of a member of the staff. The topic will be assigned in accordance to the interests and capabilities of the student. It is assumed that the student is familiar with one or more spreadsheets, mathematics manipulation programs, and graphing software packages. May be repeated for up to four hours. (Fall, Winter; May be accomplished on a coop basis during the Summer.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 211, 212, 215, 216; MATH 181; High school biology and chemistry. Physics principles will be used to address a variety of problems that arise in biological systems. Topics may include Brownian motion and diffusion, fluids, self-assembly, molecular machines, membranes and nerve impulses.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 211-212; MATH 181, 182. The origins of modern physics, quantum theory, the theory of relativity, nuclear physics. Three hours lecture each week. Laboratory experience is available in PHYS 325. (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 211-212, 310; MATH 182. Refraction, reflection, interference, and absorption of light are discussed from the standpoint of the ray and especially of the wave theories of light. Laboratory experience is available in PHYS 325. (Winter, even years)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 211-212, 310; MATH 182. Interpretation of spectral line and band wavelengths, profiles, and intensities in terms of stars' composition, temperature, pressure, motions. Design of laboratory experiments to obtain atomic and molecular constants. Systematics of atomic and molecular data. Laboratory experience is available in PHYS 497. (Fall, even years)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 213-214, 310; MATH 315. See MATH 316 for course description.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One year of high school physics or chemistry or one semester of college physics or chemistry; junior standing. This course is cross-listed with RELT 317, School of Religion. A student may receive credit for this course from only one program. Scientific method, truth, reality, logic and derivability, authority/inspiration, faith and reason in mathematics and physical sciences. Non-logical factors in acceptance of scientific statements as authoritative. Arguments for the existence of God. Causality, determinism and miracles. Scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts with relation to trends in religion and philosophy. Does not apply to a major in or minor in Physics. (Winter)
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 213-214, 310. Laboratory experiments pertinent to areas of physics except electricity and magnetism. Meets once per week.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 213-214, 310. Laboratory experiments pertinent to electricity and magnetism. Meets once a week.
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