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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 3110, PHYS 3115 and University Advanced Standing. Explores the theory and applications of physics to medicine. Covers signal analysis, ultrasound, X-rays, optical, nuclear, and X-ray imaging techniques, nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance imaging, and nanomedicine.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): (PHYS 3125, PHYS 3230, or instructor approval) and University Advanced Standing. Introduces students to the process of developing, designing, proposing, building, executing, analyzing, revising, and presenting a scientific experiment. Teaches a variety of advanced experimental technical skills and helps students learn to embark independently on scientific research.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 3110. Covers radiation, radioactive decay, nuclear structure, interactions of radiation with matter, radiation detection, nuclear reactions, fission, fusion, and applications of nuclear physics.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Department Approval and University Advanced Standing. For licensed teachers or teachers seeking to recertify, an update course in physics and/or basic physics core courses for teachers needing physics or physical science endorsements from the Utah State Office of Education. Teaches principles of physics and pedagogy of teaching physics for teachers in public or private schools. Emphasis will be placed on correlation with the Utah Core Curriculum, the National Science Education Standards, and the Benchmarks of Project 2061. Topics will vary.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Instructor and Department approval and University Advanced Standing. Presents directed topics in research methods. Emphasizes practical methodologies in measurement, instrumentation, error analysis, statistical analysis and computational modeling. Requires a class project that may require MATLAB, LABView or other programming languages. Includes producing oral presentations, posters and journal articles using contemporary software and LaTeX.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 3110, PHYS 3115, PHYS 3300, and University Advanced Standing. Explores the theory of electrostatic phenomena in a mathematically rigorous manner. Covers Gauss' Law, the Laplace and Poisson equations, boundary-value problems, and dielectrics.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 4410 and University Advanced Standing. Explores the theory of electrodynamic phenomena in a mathematically rigorous manner. Covers Ohm's and Kirchhoff's Laws, magnetic induction, the Biot- Savart Law, Ampere's Law, Ferromagnetism, Plasmas, Maxwell's Equations, and Special Relativity.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 3110, PHYS 3115, PHYS 3300, and University Advanced Standing. Covers postulates of quantum mechanics, state functions of quantum systems, Hermitian Operators, the Schrodinger Equation, eigenfunctions of harmonic oscillators, and particles in potential wells.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 4510 and University Advanced Standing. Covers general principles and applications of quantum mechanics. Addresses topics of three-dimensional problems, angular momentum operators, spin wavefunctions, perturbation theory, applications to atomic, molecular, solid-state, and nuclear physics.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 3110, PHYS 3115, PHYS 3300, and University Advanced Standing. Covers phenomena of sound, resonance, acoustics, and human hearing. Treats associated topics of waves, frequency, vibration and interference using appropriate mathematical tools.
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