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- 3 hrs. An experimental course consisting of at least ten experiments selected from advanced topics in physics. The purpose of this course is to provide general insight into advanced experimental techniques involving refined electronic equipment and other sensitive apparatus. The experiments chosen each time the course is offered will be announced in advance. Prerequisite: PHY 201 ( Offered Spring)
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- 4 hrs. A course consisting of three hours of lecture; topics covered will include vector calculus, partial differential equations, boundary value problems, Fourier Series, Laplace transforms, and Green's function methods. The course is so oriented as to fulfill four-hour minor requirements in math or physics. Prerequisite: PHY 105, 106, MTH 125, 126 ( Offered Spring)
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3 hrs. A course covering Galilean invariance, absolute and relative velocity, simple problems in non-realistic dynamics, energy conservation, momentum conservation, rigid body dynamics, rotational and transitional motion, Coriolis force, harmonic oscillator, force oscillations, combinations of harmonic oscillators, central force problems, and gravitation. Prerequisites: PHY 105, PHY 106 ( Offered Fall)
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3 hrs. A continuation of PHY 321. The course will generally start with general motion of a rigid body and will include matrices for solving rigid body dynamics, inertia tensor, theory of vibrations, Lagrange's equations, generalized co-ordinates and dignorable co-ordinates, applications of Lagrange's equations to simple systems, Hamilton's functions, Hamilton'variational principle, Hamiltonian and Hamilton's equations, Special Theory of relativity, Einstein's postulates, Lorentz transformation, length contraction and time dilation, and elementary relativistic kinematics. Prerequisite: PHY 321 ( Offered Spring)
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- 3 hrs. An intermediate level course covering electric force (Coulomb's Law), electric field (Gauss' Law), electrical potential (Poisson's and Laplace?quation and method of images), electric field in dielectrics, capacitors, electrostatic energy, and electric current (Ohm's Law and Kirchoff Law). Prerequisites: PHY 105, PHY 106 (Offered Spring)
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- 3 hrs. The study of magnetic field (Biot's and Savart's LawAmpere's law), Faraday's Law of Induction, Inductance, and magnetic energy, AC circuits,Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, and electrodynamics. Prerequisites: PHY 331 (Offered Fall)
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- 3 hrs. An intermediate course which deals with reversible heat processes accompanying physical and chemical reactions involving gases, liquids, and solids. Topics include calorimetry, thermometry, heat transfer and expansion, specific heat, laws of thermodynamics and applications, and introduction to kinetic theory. Prerequisites: PHY 105, PHY 106 ( Offered Spring)
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- 3 hrs. A brief review of geometrical optics, physical optics, introduction to optics and spectroscopy. Prerequisites: PHY 105, PHY 106 ( Offered Fall)
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- 3 hrs. This course covers Thomson's electron diffractionexperiment; postulates of quantum mechanics; operator concept; expectation values; particle in a box; uncertainty principle; Schrodinger equation and Eigen value problems: harmonic oscillator; square well potential; and elements of matrix mechanics. Prerequisites: PHY 201 and PHY 303 (Offered Fall).
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- 3 hrs. A fundamental course to describe macroscopic systems from microscopic point of view. Topics to be covered include characteristic features of macroscopic systems, concepts of probability, postulates of the statistical theory, fundamental concepts of entropy, of absolute temperature, and of the canonical distribution; relations between microscopic theory and macroscopic measurements; applications of statistical physics: equipartition theorem of solids, Gibbs free energy, phase equilibrium, and kinetic theory of transport process. applications to diatomic molecules, magnetization. Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics. Prerequisites: PHY 105, PHY 106, PHY 341 ( Offered as needed)
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