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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Capstone course tailored to individual student needs and professional interests. Students select education, management, or research as a focus. Individual or group experiences are planned with individual faculty. May be repeated once. Prerequisite: PHT 701
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3.00 Credits
Introductory astronomy. Celestial sphere and planetary positions; history of astronomy; survey of the solar system; the "message" of starlight; H-R diagrams; stellar evolution; quasars; cosmology and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. No physics or astronomy background is required. Some elementary algebra is used.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Introduction to principles of kinematics, dynamics, machines, energy, momentum, heat, oscillations, waves, sound, and fluids. Applications to biomechanics and to energy generation, storage, and transfer. Lecture and three-hour laboratory.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Introduction to principles of electricity, magnetism, optics and radiation, atomic and nuclear physics. Applications to electronics and instrumentation. Lecture, laboratory, and demonstrations. Prerequisite: Physics 151.
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3.00 Credits
Practical introduction to science in everyday life. Discover how things work using case-studies of real-world objects such as baseballs, rockets, vacuum cleaners, faucets, wood stoves, air conditioners, flashlights, lasers, clocks, guitars and microwave ovens. Some elementary algebra is used. Lecture/demonstration/discussion.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Calculus-based general physics. Introduction to principles of kinematics, forces, statics, dynamics, rotation, work, energy, gravitation, equilibrium, scientific methodologies and their development. Lecture and laboratory. Prerequisite: Mathematics 201 (may be taken concurrently).
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Calculus-based general physics. Electricity and magnetism, radiation, optics, and elementary atomic physics. Lecture and laboratory. Prerequisites: Physics 261 and Mathematics 202 (may be taken concurrently).
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3.00 Credits
Fundamentals of Newtonian dynamics, work-energy concepts, conservation laws, an introduction to Hamilton's Principle and Lagrange's Equations. The study of oscillatory motion, central force motion, rigid body dynamics, and accelerated reference systems. Prerequisites: Physics 261 and 262. Prerequisite or co-requisite: Mathematics 317.
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3.00 Credits
The classical theory of static and dynamic electricity and magnetism including solution of Maxwell's equations for special cases. Prerequisites: Physics 262 and Mathematics 302.
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3.00 Credits
Wave particle duality, uncertainty principle, atomic structure, Black Body Theory, quantization, Bohr Theory, Schrodinger equation, Vector coupling, Stern-Gerlach experiment, periodic table, atomic spectra, selection rules, bonding, molecular spectra, masers and lasers, Band Theory, and applications to semiconductors. Prerequisite: Physics 363.
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