|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
This course covers fundamental elements of hydrology for ground waters, flowing waters and impounded waters, including occurrence of groundwater, precipitation, snow surveys, factors affecting runoff, floods and flood-routing. Water quality is examined as are effects of pollution, sampling and testing, dispersion of waste waters, deoxygenation of polluted waters, reaeration of flowing waters and water resource management. The survey includes various assessments of water policy in the United States. Prerequisite: PHYS 460; Corequisite: CHEM 105.
-
3.00 Credits
This course is designed to analyze basic economic and political factors which are involved in production and use of energy-related resources and consequent impact on the environment, with particular attention to the environmental crisis. Problems and prospects facing non-conventional or alternative energy systems are studied, including solar, wind, geothermal and bio-mass conversion, use of agricultural and urban waste, use of conservation as an alternative source of energy and incentives for reducing consumption. Prerequisites: ECON 101, PHYS 460.
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines factors affecting existence of natural resources and the consequences of exploitation. Among topics treated are identification of sources, effects and fates of pollutants in the atmosphere and in the food chain; the creation of acid rain and snow and their effect on forests and marine life; the green house effect and nuclear winter. Mathematical modeling and treatment of diffusion processes will be considered. Prerequisites: PHYS 460, TMAT 235, CHEM 105.
-
3.00 Credits
This course covers electrical test and measurement techniques using basic modern laboratory instruments, including digital and analog devices such as function generators, oscilloscopes, multi-meters and sensors. The two-hour lecture emphasizes principle components and operation of those devices. Prerequisite: PHYS 220.
-
3.00 Credits
An intermediate course in geometrical and physical optics covering wave motion, interference, diffraction, polarization, spectrometry, and laser optics. Prerequisites: PHYS 220, MATH 260.
-
3.00 Credits
The relations between heat and work, the first and second laws of thermodynamics, entropy, applications to various systems, the kinetic theory of gases, and an introduction to classical statistical mechanics. Prerequisites: PHYS 220, MATH 260.
-
2.00 Credits
A senior course covering the art of physical measurement, the techniques of experimental research, and the treatment of data. The student performs advanced experiments requiring much independent work in the fields of mechanics, electron physics, magnetism, optics, and atomic, quantum, and nuclear physics. The lectures include such topics as laboratory safety, theory of errors, vacuum technology, electronics, the operation of standard laboratory equipment, and machine shop operations. Prerequisites: PHYS 220, MATH 260.
-
3.00 Credits
An intermediate course covering particle kinematics and dynamics, one-dimensional oscillatory motion, mechanics of a system of particles, the central force problem, essentials of celestial mechanics, and motion in a noninertial frame of reference. Prerequisite: PHYS 220; Corequisite: MATH 320.
-
3.00 Credits
A continuation of PHYS 340. Subjects include kinematics and dynamics of a rigid body in two and three dimensions, generalized coordinates, calculus of variations, Lagrange's formalism, Hamilton's equations, and vibration theory. Prerequisite: PHYS 340.
-
2.00 Credits
A continuation of PHYS 330. Selected students will begin to work with faculty members on advanced projects. Prerequisite: PHYS 330.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|