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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Introduction to special topics in physics or technology that are not included in regular course offerings. Offered depending on interest or demand. Prerequisite: One year high school algebra.
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3.00 Credits
Designed for students of music. Includes basic principles of acoustics, response of the ear to sound, musical tuning scales, auditorium acoustics, and the production and analysis of instrumental and vocal sounds.
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5.00 Credits
Calculus-based treatment of mechanics of particles, solids, and fluids utilizing Newton's laws. Examines thermodynamics, sound, and wave phenomena. Four hours lecture, two hours lab. Prerequisite: Mathematics 211 or 221. Recommended: One year high school physics. Spring.
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5.00 Credits
Calculus-based treatment of electricity, magnetism, and light. Brief introduction to special relativity. Four hours lecture, two hours lab. Prerequisites: Mathematics 222, Physics 210. Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the quantum nature of matter and radiation. Examines the developments in physics since the late 19th century, primarily in the areas of relativity, atomic, nuclear, and particle physics. Three hours lecture. Prerequisites: Physics 211, Mathematics 323. Spring.
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1.00 Credits
Complements Physics 213 by providing laboratory experience in relativity, atomic, nuclear, and particle physics. One two-hour lab period. Corequisite: Physics 213. Spring.
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4.00 Credits
Emphasizes Newton's Second Law in differential form. Covers damped harmonic motion, central fields, rigid bodies, Lagrange and Hamilton equations, and moving reference frames. Prerequisites: Physics 121 or 210 and Mathematics 323.
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4.00 Credits
First half deals with digital electronics, emphasizing logic gates, counting, timing and display circuits, latches, memory, and microprocessor fundamentals. The second half deals with circuit analysis and analog electronics, emphasizing power transfer, transistor amplifier circuits, voltage and current control, and operational amplifiers. Three hours lecture, two hours lab. Prerequisites: Physics 122 or 211 and Mathematics 221.
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4.00 Credits
Examines Maxwell's equations, electric and magnetic fields, vector and scalar potentials, gauge transformations, boundary value problems, electromagnetic radiation, and relativistic electrodynamics. Prerequisites: Physics 211, Mathematics 324.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the Bohr model and wave mechanical approach to the hydrogen atom, magnetic dipole moments, spin-orbit interaction, energy states and transitions in multi-electron atoms, Xrays, and the Zeeman effect. Two and one-half hours lecture, two hour lab every other week. Prerequisites: Physics 213, Mathematics 324.
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