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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Selected topics. May be repeated with new content. See Class Schedule for specific content. Limit of nine units of any combination of 296, 496, 596 courses applicable to a bachelor's degree.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of the General Education requirements in Communication and Critical Thinking and Foundations II.A., Natural Sciences and Quantitative Reasoning. Fundamental physical concepts underlying energy, its conversion, and impact on the environment.
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4.00 Credits
Three lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Physics 180B and 182B, or 196 and 196L. AC and DC circuits, diodes, transistors, conventional and operational amplifiers, analog to digital conversion, pulse and digital electronics. Introduce science majors to modern electronic devices and their utilization in scientific instrumentation.
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2.00 Credits
Six hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Physics 197 and Mathematics 342A. Numerical methods applied to a variety of physics topics. Use of computers to solve and plot problems involving differential equations, matrices, root finding, numerical integration.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Physics 180B or 197. Theoretical physics emphasizing basic themes cutting across separate traditional subject divisions. Visualize three-dimensional vector fields, forces and torques. Balance between derivations, conceptual understanding, numerical problem-solving, estimations, and proportional reasoning.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Physics 195 and 242 with a minimum grade of C. Credit or concurrent registration in Mathematics 342A. Newtonian mechanics, gravitation, small oscillations, collisions, motion of rigid bodies, Lagrangian mechanics.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Physics 197 and 242 with a minimum grade of C. Credit or concurrent registration in Mathematics 342A. Special theory of relativity. Particle properties of electromagnetic radiation, and wave properties of particles. Introduction to quantum theory with applications to atomic structure.
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3.00 Credits
One lecture and six hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Physics 311, 354 and Chemistry 200. Stresses both laboratory experiments and techniques of data and error analysis. Experiments are taken from major areas of physics.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Physics 350, Mathematics 342A, Physics 354 or Chemistry 410A. Classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Applications of equilibrium thermodynamics. Statistical mechanics, including concepts from probability and statistics. Maxwell-Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein statistics. Applications of statistical mechanics in calculating macroscopic properties of simple systems.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites for Physics 400A: Physics 196 with a minimum grade of C; Physics 197 and Mathematics 342A. Physics 400A is prerequisite to Physics 400B. Electrostatics, magnetostatics, electromagnetic induction, Maxwell's equations, radiation and wave propagation.
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