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GER: NW (Empirical Study of the Natural World) Prerequisite: high school algebra Apparent motion of the Sun, Moon and planets; the birth of modern astronomy; properties of light and its detection; the Sun and the Solar System; the structure, properties and evolution of stars; galaxies and cosmology. Helps satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in natural sciences. 4 credits.
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GER: NW (Empirical Study of the Natural World) Prerequisite: high school calculus. MTH-150 or (140 and 141) strongly recommended The basic concepts and laws of classical mechanics. Measurement and units, vectors, kinematics, Newton's laws of motion, work and energy, systems of particles, collisions, rotational kinematics, torque and angular momentum, rigid body statics and dynamics, simple harmonic motion, gravitation, and mechanics of solids and fluids. Helps satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in natural sciences. 4 credits.
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GER: NW (Empirical Study of the Natural World) The basic concepts and laws of classical electricity and magnetism. Electrostatic and magnetostatic forces and fields. Gauss' law, electric circuits, Amperee's law, Faraday's law, electric and magnetic properties of matter, time-varying fields, Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves, and geometrical optics. Helps satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in natural sciences. 4 credits.
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Prerequisite: PHY-111 Introduction to thermodynamics and wave motion. Temperature, The First Law, kinetic theory, The Second Law, sound, electromagnetic waves, super-position, interference, diffraction and polarization. 4 credits.
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Prerequisite: PHY-112 Special theory of relativity, particle nature of electromagnetic radiation, waves and wave nature of matter, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, historical models of the atom, Schroedinger's equation and its application to onedimensional systems, quantum theory of the hydrogen atom, electron spin, many-electron atoms, and introduction to nuclear physics. Should be enrolled with MTH-160. 4 credits.
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Prerequisite: PHY-112 Kinematics and dynamics of particles and systems of particles, oscillations, introduction to Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics, central force motion, motion in non-inertial reference frames, and dynamics of rigid bodies. Should be enrolled with MTH-255. 4 credits.
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Prerequisite: PHY-311 An advanced treatment of topics studied in the first classical mechanics course, plus gravitation, coupled oscillations, mechanics of continuous media, the one-dimensional wave equation, and relativistic kinematics and dynamics. 4 credits.
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Prerequisite: PHY-112 Development of the microscopic and macroscopic Maxwell equations. Electrostatic forces and fields, dielectrics, potential theory, magnetostatic forces and fields, time-varying fields and magnetic properties of matter. Should be enrolled with MTH-255. 4 credits.
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Prerequisite: PHY-321 A continuation of the first course on electromagnetic theory. Application of Maxwell's equations to radiating systems, and properties of electromagnetic waves in vacuum and matter. Radiation theory and relativistic electrodynamics. 4 credits.
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Prerequisite: PHY-241 is recommended Laws of heat and thermodynamics, kinetic theory of gases, introduction to statistical mechanics. 4 credits.
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