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3.00 Credits
Corequisite: PHY 1620/1940, and 1972 Recitation. The structure and properties of atoms, molecules, and nuclei, X-rays, gammarays, natural and artificial radioactivity. Nuclear fission and fusion, nuclear energy production; special relativity and elementary particles. Lecture, 3 hours. Recitation, 1 hour. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHY 1620 or 1940. Corequisite: PHY 2112 Recitation. Statics; including vector formulations, trusses, and distributed loads. Basic kinematics and dynamics of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies; work and energy; impulse and momentum; conservation laws. Emphasis on engineering applications. Lecture, 3 hours. Recitation, 1 hour. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHY 1620 or 1940. The study of heat, work, and the various forms and transformations of energy. The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics applied to engines, phase transformations, chemical reactions, and radiation. An introduction to statistical mechanics. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHY 1620 or 1940 and calculus. The fundamentals of classical mechanics. Topics include motion of a particle, conservation of energy, momentum and angular momentum, Lagrange and Hamilton equations, configuration and phase space, orbital mechanics. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHY 1620 or 1940 and calculus. The physical laws most relevant to life. Energy and its transformation in organisms; Information and the programming of life processes; Entropy and the creation of order by living systems; Quantum mechanics and its role in chemistry and in the mutability and permanence of life. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHY 1620 or 1940. PHY 3210 is a prerequisite for PHY 3220. Corequisite: MTH 2760. First semester: The study of electrostatics, conductors and dielectrics, using vector algebra and calculus; direct currents and circuit analysis. Second semester: Magnetism, electromagnetic induction, alternating currents; Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHY 3210. Selected experiments demonstrating the principles and applications of electricity and magnetism. Laboratory, 4 hours. Credit: 2 semester hours. Laboratory fee, $25.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHY 1450 or 1600 or 1620 or 1940. Corequisite: PHY 3241 Laboratory. An introduction to the principles of electrical measurements and electronics. The use and operation of vacuum tubes and transistors, amplifiers, rectifiers, oscillators and modulators. Application to instrumentation in both physical and bio-medical fields, including transducers, recorders and read-out devices. Lecture, 3 hours. Laboratory, 2 hours. Credit: 4 semester hours. Laboratory fee, $25.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHY 1620 or 1940 and calculus or PHY 1950. The optics of lenses and mirrors, cameras, corrective lenses, telescopes, magnifiers, microscopes. Wave theory of light, with applications: interferometry, diffraction patterns, polarization, spectroscopy, dispersion, fiber optics, holography. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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2.00 Credits
Corequisite: PHY 3250. Selected experiments in Optics. Laboratory, 4 hours. Credit: 2 semester hours. Laboratory fee, $25.
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