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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): MATH 009C or MATH 09HC; a grade of "C-" or betterin PHYS 040B. Designed for engineering and physical sciences students. Covers topics in electricity and magnetism including electric fields and potential; Gauss' law; capacitance; magnetic fields; Ampere'slaw; Faraday's law and induction; electromagnetic oscillations; dc and ac current; and circuits. Laboratories provide exercises illustrating the experimental foundations of physical principles and selected applications. Credit is awarded for only one of PHYS 002C or PHYS 040C.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): a grade of "C-" or better in PHYS 040C or consent ofinstructor. For engineering and physical sciences students. Topics in electromagnetic waves including Maxwell's equations; geometrical optics; optical instruments, cavities, and waveguides; interference, diffraction, and polarization; and special theory of relativity. Laboratories provide exercises illustrating the experimental foundations of physical principles and selected applications.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): MATH 046 (may be taken concurrently), a grade of "C-" or better in PHYS040D. For engineering and physical sciences students. Covers topics in modern physics including the quantum theory of light and particles; quantum mechanics in one and three dimensions; tunneling phenomena; the hydrogen atom; statistical physics; lasers; molecular structure; and solid state, nuclear, and particle physics.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Individual study, 3-12 hours. Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor. Special research projects in physics performed under the supervision of a member of the staff. This course may not be used to satisfy the undergraduate unit requirements in the major. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable to a maximum of 8 units.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): MATH 010B, MATH 046, or equivalents; PHYS 040C; PHYS 040D. Covers stellar interiors, radiations, and evolution, the origin of the elements; particle and electromagnetic radiation; pulsars, quasars, and other unusual objects; and galactic structure and cosmology.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): MATH 010B, MATH 046, PHYS 040A. Topics include vector calculus, single-particle motion, oscillations, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics, and central-forces motion and celestial mechanics.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 040B, PHYS 130A. Topics include dynamics of a system of particles, motion in non-inertial reference systems, dynamics of rigid bodies, coupled oscillations, and special theory of relativity.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): MATH 010B, PHYS 040A, PHYS 040B, PHYS 040C, PHYS 040D, PHYS 040E. Macroscopic properties of many-particle systems. Laws and applications of thermodynamics: entropy, thermodynamic potentials, ideal gases. Principles and applications of statistical mechanics: probability distributions; canonical, microcanonical, and grand canonical ensembles; specific heat of solids; paramagnetism; kinetic theory of gases; phase transitions; quantum statistics.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): MATH 010B, MATH 046, PHYS 040C. Topics include vector calculus, Coulomb's law and the electric field, Gauss' law,scalar potential, conductors in electrostatic fields, electrostatic energy, electric multipoles, boundary conditions, electrostatics in the presence of matter, and special methods in electrostatics.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 135A. Topics include electric currents and circuits, Ampere's law, the magnetic field, the integral form of Ampere's law, the vector potential, Faraday's law of induction, magnetic energy, magnetic multipoles, magnetism in the presence of matter, Maxwell's equations, and plane waves.
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