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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Each student majoring in Physics may compile a portfolio consisting of records of participation in professional activities as suggested by departmental faculty and as initiated by the student. Examples of activities include but are not limited to the following: attendance at club meetings, professional film showings, visiting-scientist seminar, and research review sessions, reading of journals and books, participation at professional meetings, preparation for graduate school and for employment, and lists of concepts or new ideas. The portfolio is reviewed upon the student's registration for this course during the senior year. The grade earned for this credit will depend upon the persistence of the student in participation during his/her stay at Southern Adventist University and during summers, and upon the breadth and depth of the entries. It also depends upon the student having his/her portfolio reviewed by the Department at the end of each preceding semester, and the extent to which the Department's suggestions on those occasions are implemented.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 213-214, 310; MATH 182. A study of gases, kinetic theory, and quantum statistics. Emphasis is placed on being able to use thermodynamics data in the literature. Three hours of lecture each week. This class is not open to students who have taken CHEM 411. Laboratory experience is available in PHYS 497. (Fall, even years)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 215, 216, 310; MATH 315. The limits to classical physics; wave packets, the Schroedinger equation, eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, one-dimensional potentials, the solution of the Schroedinger equation in spherical-polar coordinates for the hydrogen atom; electron spin and the Pauli requirement for antisymmetric wave functions, with applications to states of light atoms; variation techniques for small atoms and molecules, Hueckel and LCAO methods. This class is not open to students who have taken CHEM 412. (Winter, odd years)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 215, 216, 310; MATH 182, 218, 315 (MATH 316, 317, 318, 319, 411-412 desirable). The motion of a particle in gravitational and other classical fields is attacked using the techniques of differential equations in the Newtonian, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian forms. Special functions, vector theorems, transforms, and tensors are introduced as needed. Laboratory experience is available in PHYS 497. (Fall, odd years)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 215, 216, 310; MATH 182, 218, 315, (316, 317, 318, 319, 411-412 desirable). Analysis of electrical circuits, electrostatic and magnetostatic fields, and the motion of charges therein. Maxwell's equations and the consequent prediction of electro-magnetic waves. Applications to modern atomic and nuclear theory are stressed. Complex mapping, vector theorems, transforms, and special functions may be used. Laboratory experience is available in PHYS 326. (Fall, even years; Winter, odd years)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 215, 216, 310, 412; MATH 182, 218, 315, (316, 317, 318, 319, 411-412 desirable) The structure of quantum mechanics; review of the Thomson, Bohr, and Fermi-Thomas models; operator methods; operators, matrices, and spin; time-independent perturbation theory; corrections to the hydrogen-atom treatment; other atoms and the periodic table; emission and absorption of radiation from atoms; collision theory; elementary particles and their symmetries; group dynamics approach to particle classification. (Fall, odd years; Winter, even years)
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
See PHYS 265 for course description.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: COMM 135 Principles and techniques of writing for news releases, periodicals, and research journals. Practice in scientific meeting oral and poster-session presentation. It is expected that the written reports be done with a word processor and that the student will have done some original research of an experimental, computational, or theorem-proving nature before enrolling in this course. PHYS 295/495 and 297/497 exist to fulfill this requirement and there are numerous opportunities with pay at universities and national laboratories during the student's junior-senior summer. (Fall)
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. See PHYS 295 for course description.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. See PHYS 297 for course description.
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