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3.00 Credits
Calculus based. Basic physics for pre-health science students. Topics include mechanics, heat and thermodynamics. Some discussions on biological applications. Two lectures per week. Prerequisite: MATH 2417. Corequisites: PHYS 1101 (College Physics Laboratory I) and PHYS 3041 (Physics for Bioscience I Recitation). (3-0) Y
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Continuation of PHYS 3341. Topics include electricity, magnetism and optics. Some discussions on biological applications. Two lectures per week. Prerequisites: PHYS 3341 and MATH 2419. Corequisites: PHYS 1102 (College Physics Laboratory II) and PHYS 3042 (Physics for Bio Science II). (3-0) Y
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3.00 Credits
Wave-particle duality, atomic structure, one- and three- dimensional elementary quantum mechanics, and energy levels of single- and multi-electron atoms. Fine structure splitting and momentum coupling. Prerequisite PHYS 2303; co-requisite: PHYS 3311. (3-0) Y
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An essentially descriptive course outlining the current views of the universe and the sources of data supporting those views. The solar system and its origin, stars, galaxies, pulsars, quasars, black holes, nebulae and the evolution of the universe. Opportunity to use a U.T. Dallas telescope is provided. Prerequisite: PHYS 2326 or PHYS 2327 or PHYS 2422. (3-0) Y
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4.00 Credits
Coulomb's and Gauss's laws; potentials, methods for solvingelectric field distributions near conductors; potentials due to clusters of charges; polarization of dielectric materials; electric displacement. Magnetic fields in a vacuum and in matter; time varying electric and magnetic fields; Maxwell's equations; electromagnetic waves. Prerequisite: PHYS 3311 or equivalent. (4-0) Y
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Fundamental concepts: the Stern Gerlach experiment; the Dirac formalism; kets; bras and operators; base kets and matrix representations. Measurements, observables and the uncertainty relations. Position, momentum, and translation. Wave functions in position and momentum space. Time evolution and Schr?dinger's equation, Heisenberg picture. Orbital angular momentum, spin, and angular momentum addition. Applications include simple harmonic oscillator and the Hydrogen atom. Prerequisites: PHYS 3311, PHYS 3352 and either MATH 2333 or MATH 2418. (3-0) Y
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Fermions and bosons, perturbation theory, WKB approximation, scattering. Prerequisite: PHYS 4301. (3-0) T
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Study of the elements of thermodynamics, kinetic theory, and statistical mechanics; the concepts of temperature, entropy, phase transitions, transport phenomena, partition functions, statistical ensembles; the Maxwell-Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein distributions; and the equipartition theorem. Applications of the theories will be considered. Prerequisites: PHYS 2325, PHYS 2326, and PHYS 3311. (3-0) Y
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3.00 Credits
Hardware and software techniques to utilize computers in data acquisition and control of physics experiments. Operation of digital input and output devices, analog to digital converters, digital to analog converters, and intercomputer communication. Hands-on operation of several devices. (3-0) T
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3.00 Credits
Topics include electromagnetic waves and radiation, the interaction of light and matter, geometric optics, polarization, interference, and diffraction. Prerequisite: PHYS 3416. (3-0) Y
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