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4.00 Credits
Mechanics, properties of materials, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, light, sound, atomic and nuclear structure. Problems require knowledge of algebra. PHY 181 in Fall semester, PHY 182 in Spring semester. Three lectures and one laboratory per week. Lab fee $30.
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4.00 Credits
Mechanics, heat, and sound the fall semester, electricity, optics, and modern physics the spring semester. Three lectures and one laboratory period per week. Lab fee $30. PHY 201 in fall semester, PHY 202 in spring semester. Prerequisite: MAT 162, which may be taken concurrently with PHY 201. PHY 201 is a prerequisite for PHY 202.
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4.00 Credits
Mechanics, heat, and sound the fall semester, electricity, optics, and modern physics the spring semester. Three lectures and one laboratory period per week. Lab fee $30. PHY 201 in fall semester, PHY 202 in spring semester. Prerequisite: MAT 162, which may be taken concurrently with PHY 201. PHY 201 is a prerequisite for PHY 202.
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3.00 Credits
A quantitative survey course in general astronomy with an observational laboratory component for students in the technical majors. The students will master the operation of the LX200 telescope at the Geneva College observatory and its associated CCD camera to complete a series of observing projects. Prerequisite: MAT 161. Offered on demand at department's discretion.
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3.00 Credits
Introductory acoustics course for physical science and engineering majors. Practical applications of physical, physiological, psycological, musical, and architectural acoustics. Sound recording, reproduction, and measurements. Wave phenomena, harmonic analysis, and their application to musical scales and instruments, speech, hearing, transducers, and reverberation. Techniques and equipment demonstrated. Taught concurrently with PHY 160. Prerequisites: PHY 201, MAT 161. Offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Principles and techniques of non-relativistic mechanics. Includes motion of a point mass in a vector force field, potential theory, conservation laws, rotating coordinate systems, and the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian techniques, with applications to planetary motion, scattering, rigid body motion, forced oscillations, and continuous media. Fall semester, odd numbered years. Prerequisites: PHY 202. Corequisite: MAT 261.
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1.00 Credits
An intermediate course in experimental physics. Equipment available for work in atomic physics, nuclear physics, solid state physics, thermodynamics, optics, electromagnetic fields, and gravitation. Areas of experimentation selected by the student in consultation with the instructor. Special experiments available for future science teachers. Lab fee $40. Prerequisite for PHY 303: PHY 182 or PHY 202 or consent of the instructor. Prerequisite for PHY 304: PHY 303.
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1.00 Credits
An intermediate course in experimental physics. Equipment available for work in atomic physics, nuclear physics, solid state physics, thermodynamics, optics, electromagnetic fields, and gravitation. Areas of experimentation selected by the student in consultation with the instructor. Special experiments available for future science teachers. Lab fee $40. Prerequisite for PHY 303: PHY 182 or PHY 202 or consent of the instructor. Prerequisite for PHY 304: PHY 303.
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3.00 Credits
Begins with the electromagnetic wave solutions of Maxwell's equations. Includes matrix formulation of paraxial geometrical optics, wave propagation, polarization, interference and diffraction, stimulated emission and lasers, Fourier transform spectroscopy, and non-linear optics. Spring semester, even numbered years. Prerequisite: PHY 202.
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3.00 Credits
Includes the laws, kinetic theory of gases, and introduction to classical statistical mechanics. Fall semester. Prerequisites: PHY 202 and CHM 111 and MAT 162. Cross-listed as CHM 307.
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