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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: Phys 122, Math 303. Newtonian mechanics; general motion of a particle in three dimensions; Langrangian mechanics; canonical coordinates; particle systems and rigid bodies; gravitation and Newtonian cosmology; nonlinear mechanics and chaos.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: Phys 225, MATH 203, 224. Vector calculus, Green's and Stokes'theorems; static electric and magnetic field laws; boundary-value problems; Lorentz force; polarization and magnetization in materials.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Phys 368; Math 303. Electrodynamics; Maxwell's equations; plane electromagnetic waves in free space; dielectrics and conductors; reflection and refraction at a plane boundary; electromagnetic radiation; relativistic dynamics.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq: Phys 225, 322, 326. Selected experiments in atomic physics and nuclear physics.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq: Phys 391. Selected experiments in condensed matter physics and materials science. Topics in error analysis (co-variance, distributions, curve fitting).
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: one year of college-level physics. Consult instructor prior to enrollment. Presentation of scientific research in written form; abstracts, project reports, and documentation; elements of successful posters; proposals and professional critique. Writing proficiency course.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Phys 225, 363; Math 303. Review of the Schrodinger equation with applications to simple potentials, introduction to Dirac notation, generalized function spaces, and general uncertainty relations. The Schrodinger equation in three dimensions, including the hydrogen atom, angular momentum, and spin. Introduction to identical particles.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Phys 455. Introduction to perturbation theory (including time independent, degenerate, and time dependent), the variational principle and WKB approximations. Introduction to scattering theory. Special topics such as Bell's theorem, relativistic quantum mechanics.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Phys 368, 456. Fermions and bosons; conservation laws (charge, parity and time invariance); electromagnetic, weak and hadronic interactions; gauge theories; electroweak theory; quarks, mesons, and baryons.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Phys 255 or permission of instructor. Structure and properties of materials including crystallography, symmetry, bonding-related properties, electronic structure, phase diagrams, surfaces, semiconductors, metals.
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