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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Project chosen and completed under the guidance of a faculty member, which results in a thesis. Prerequisites 21 credits of physics courses including PHYS 262, 305, and 308; and admission to Physics Department Honors Program. Notes PHYS 405 is a prerequisite for PHYS 406. An oral progress report is required for PHYS 405. Oral and written presentations are required for PHYS 406. Students may receive no more than 6 credits of PHYS 405, 406, 408, and 409. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 0 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Advanced experiments in modern physics: electronics, optics, condensed matter, and nuclear physics. Techniques for recording, graphically and statistically analyzing, and reporting data. Typical experiments include the Frank-Hertz experiment, Hall Effect, electron spin resonance, nuclear magnetic resonance and optical pumping. Prerequisites 21 credits of physics courses, including PHYS 305 and 308 Notes This course meets the writing-intensive requirement. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 0 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 9
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Credits: 2-3 Work under guidance of faculty member on research project in experimental or theoretical physics. Prerequisites 21 credits of physics courses. Notes May be taken twice with permission of the Physics Department. Students may receive no more than 6 credits of PHYS 405, 406, 408, and 409. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 0 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 On-the-job experience for physics majors in industry or government laboratories including summer programs. Prerequisites 75 credits, 21 credits of physics courses, and permission of department. Notes See department for other requirements and application procedures prior to enrollment. Students may receive no more than 6 credits of PHYS 405, 406, 408, and 409. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 0 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Cross-Listed with PHYS 510 Study and development leading to computer simulations of various physical systems. Requires the study and development of computational techniques and numerical algorithms to obtain both numerical results and visualization of these results. Application to individual physical processes taking place in a variety of physical streams. Prerequisites PHYS 303 and 305 Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Cross-Listed with PHYS 512/CSI 687 Crystal structures, binding, lattice vibrations, the free electron model, metals, semiconductors and semiconductor devices, superconductivity, and magnetism. Prerequisites PHYS 402 or 502. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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1.00 Credits
Credits: 1 Topics of current interest in modern physics with emphasis on the breadth of physical understanding needed to approach many of today's problems. The course will also review all of undergraduate physics through assigned problems from the GRE test. Prerequisites 21 credits of physics courses. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 2 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Cross-Listed with GEOL 417 Seismological and gravitational theory and application to an understanding of the Earth's interior. Geology requirement may be waived for physics and engineering students with sufficient background. Prerequisites GEOL 101, 102, 201, 301; MATH 113, 114; and PHYS 160.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Cross-Listed with ASTR 428 Special relativity; four-dimensional space-time; general relativity; non-Euclidean geometries, geodesics, and field equations; tests of general theory of relativity; black holes; cosmology; models of the universe; remnant blackbody radiation; big bang cosmology; thermodynamics; and the universe. Prerequisites MATH 214; and PHYS 303, 305, and 262; or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Cross-Listed with PHYS 540 Accelerators, detectors and related electronics; nuclear and elementary particle structure; symmetries and conservation laws; the electromagnetic, weak, and hadronic interactions; nuclear models; the quark model; and nuclear science and technology. Prerequisites PHYS 402 or 502. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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