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2.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 152A or consent of instructor. Covers the symmetry of many-body wavefunction, including bosons and fermions; secondary quantization; harmonic oscillators; ladder operators, eigenvalues, and eigenfunctions; interacting many-body systems; mean field approximation; and density matrix of a subsystem and decoherence.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): MATH 046, PHYS 040E, PHYS 130A, PHYS 135A. Topics include waveparticle duality; the Schrodinger equation; superposition, the uncertainty principle; and one-dimensional harmonic oscillator.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 156A. Topics include the hydrogen atom, angular momentum and spin representations, many-electron systems, the Pauli exclusion principle, and perturbation theory.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): CHEM 113 or equivalent; or PHYS 156A and PHYS 156B; or consent of instructor. Theoretical and experimental techniques of atom physics. Fine structure and spin-orbit coupling in single-electron atoms; angular momentum coupling and magnetic moments in many-electron atoms; Hartree-Fock solution to many-electron problem; hyperfine structure; atoms in magnetic, electric, and coherent electromagnetic fields; the two-level atom; electron spin resonance spectroscopy; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; laser spectroscopy; fundamentals of chemical bonding in molecules.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 040A, PHYS 040B, PHYS 040C, PHYS 040D, PHYS 040E. Discusses the basic nuclear properties, nuclear building blocks and structure, radioactivity, nuclear interactions, the strong force, the confinement and chiral phase transitions, the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) vacuum, matter at extreme temperatures and densities.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 040A, PHYS 040B, PHYS 040C, PHYS 040D, PHYS 040E. Explores topics such as the classification of particles in terms of the Standard Model; methods and techniques for particle acceleration and detection; conservation laws and symmetries; the basic interactions of particles (electromagnetic, strong, weak); and electroweak unification.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 040A, PHYS 040B, PHYS 040C, PHYS 040D, PHYS 040E. Discusses current topics in astrophysics and cosmology from the perspective of elementary particle physics. Topics include the development and structure of the early universe, dark matter and dark energy, cosmic radiation and particle physics in the stars.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): MATH 046; PHYS 040C; either CHEM 110B or both PHYS 040D and PHYS 040E. Covers the application of physics to environmental problems including global climate, energy for human use, transport of pollutants, noise, environmental spectroscopy, and the evaluation of environmental issues in the context of society.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 040A, PHYS 040B, PHYS 040C, PHYS 040D, PHYS 040E; or consent of instructor. Computer applications for solving problems in physical sciences. Symbolic manipulation languages such as Mathematica. Mathematical operations, plotting, and symbolic and numerical techniques in calculus. Numerical methods such as histogramming, Monte-Carlo method for modeling experiments, statistical analysis, curve fitting, and numerical algorithms. Prior knowledge of the computer is not required.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Individual study, 3- 15 hours. Prerequisite(s): consent of department chair. Individual study to meet special curricular needs. May not be used to satisfy major requirements unless taken as a replacement for a course not being offered during the student's remaining tenure. Students who take the course as a substitute for PHYS 142L receive a letter grade; other students may petition for a Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grade. Course is repeatable to a maximum of 9 units; a maximum of 3 units may be used to substitute for PHYS 142L.
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