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3.00 Credits
For middle and adolescent level education majors seeking licensure in science. Emphasizes scientific inquiry in an activity-based, cooperative-learning approach. Goals are to develop basic physical concepts and the scientific reasoning skills necessary to apply them to the natural world and to serve as a model for the transfer of the methods of inquiry-based instruction and authentic assessment to the precollege classroom. Topics selected from properties of matter, thermodynamics, electricity, optics, kinematics, and astronomy. Assessments include laboratory notebook and journal writing, discussion, and developing and teaching inquiry lessons. Prerequisite: one year of physical science or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Discusses mathematical methods applicable to classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and electromagnetism. Develops problem-solving skills by applying material from introductory math and physics classes along with new mathematical techniques. Allows for modeling of systems at a deeper level. Emphasizes the use of mathematics to model physical systems and methods of solutions to the differential equations of physics. Prerequisite: PHY 291; MTH 222, 252.
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3.00 Credits
Weekly physics colloquium series presenting guest speakers on topics of interest to scientific community. Required of all graduate students in residence. Prerequisite: PHY 182 or equivalent or permission of faculty in charge. Offered for credit/no-credit only.
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3.00 Credits
Directed study in selected topics in physics. Includes reading, research, writing, reporting, and discussion. Offered infrequently.
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3.00 Credits
Techniques of nuclear physics, solid state physics, and optics. Prerequisite: PHY 291, 292. Offered infrequently.
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4.00 Credits
Designed to acquaint the advanced undergraduate and graduate science major with physical principles required for an understanding of modern quantitative biology. Covers both experimental and theoretical aspects of physical biology. Prerequisite: PHY 172 or 182, MTH 249 or 251, or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture and laboratory course addressing topics in the materials categories: metals, ceramics, semiconductors, and polymers. Laboratory emphasizes techniques found in research and development of materials. Prerequisite: PHY 291, 293.
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3.00 Credits
Study of topics of current interest in physics beyond the coverage in other course offerings. Prerequisite: senior or graduate standing in physics or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Applications of atomic and nuclear physics to the problems of stellar structure and evolution. Cosmological implications of recent astronomical discoveries. Prerequisite: PHY 291, MTH 252, or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Development of formal thermodynamics including first, second, and third laws, thermodynamic potentials, Maxwell's relations, phase transitions, and illustrative applications of thermodynamics. Introduction to kinetic theory approach to behavior of systems not in equilibrium, Boltzmann Equation, and transport processes. Development of statistical mechanics and ensemble approach to equilibrium statistical thermodynamics. Prerequisite: PHY 291. Pre- or corequisite: PHY 341 or permission of instructor.
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