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3.00 Credits
Individually directed study in selected areas for advanced students. Prerequisite: GPA of 3.0 in philosophy. Enrollment must be approved by adviser, department head, and school dean.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to research techniques, laboratory work, and literature search under the supervision of an instructor on a Physics research project. Involves laboratory experimentation as well as a written report on a project from any area of Physics. Open to students with: (1) freshman or sophomore standing, (2) the ability to undertake independent work, and (3) permission of the instructor. Registration must be approved by the adviser and the department head.
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3.00 Credits
Special topics in physical science not normally offered in other courses. Prerequisite to be determined by department.
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3.00 Credits
Study of our solar system and universe including the following topics: the solar system, Kepler's laws, celestial coordinates, and observing. Hertzprung-Russell diagrams, stellar evolution, pulsars, black holes, nebulae, galaxies, and cosmology. Three lectures per week. (Does not count toward a physics major.) Prerequisite: Phys 100 or equivalent and one year high school algebra or permission of instructor.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Special theory of relativity, wave-particle experiments, introductory quantum mechanics, and nuclear physics. Prerequisite: Phys 290 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Principles of mechanics as applied to problems of engineering in which the structures under consideration are in static equilibrium. Three lectures per week. Prerequisite: Phys 260 and Math 250 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Kinematics and dynamics of particles and systems of particles including the harmonic oscillator, potential functions, conservative fields of force, accelerated reference frames, energy, gravitation and rigid bodies. Three hours lecture per week. Prerequisite: Phys 260; corequisite: Math 322 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Temperature, laws of thermodynamics, entropy, enthalpy, reversibility and irreversibility, thermal properties of materials, change of phase, use of thermodynamic tables and introduction to heat transfer. Four hours lecture per week. Prerequisite: Phys 260; corequisite: Math 260.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Ohm's law, Kirchoff's laws, nodal analysis, mesh analysis, Thevenin'and Norton's theorems, superposition, inductors and capacitors, source-free RL and RC circuits, RLC circuits. Complex variables and their application to steady-state AC circuits. Three lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: Phys 290; corequisite: Math 322 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Experiments in classical and modern physics, including wave phenomena, heat transfer, electrical measurements, optics, photoelectric effect, and radioactivity. Two three-hour labs per week. Prerequisite: Phys 301 or permission of instructor.
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