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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A course of lectures on a single topic or set of related topics not ordinarily covered in the physics curriculum. The course may be repeated for credit with a different topic. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours. Review of digital logic and programmable logic devices. Microprocessor architecture and programming and instruction design; memory hierarchy and I/O interfaces, system design using microprocessors (data acquisition, motion control robotics and other applications). Prerequisite: ES 230/ PHYS 230, or consent of instructor. Must be taken concurrently with PHYS 413L.
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1.00 Credits
Laboratory work to accompany Physics 413. Microprocessor programming, analog port and sensors, motion control, interfacing microprocessors with computers (high level interfacing and programming), programmable logic devices, and data bus and memory data handling. Prerequisite: same as PHYS 413. Must be taken concurrently with PHYS 413.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours. Electrostatics, magnetostatics, electric currents, electromagnetic induction, electric and magnetic fields in matter, Maxwell’s equations, retarded potentials, radiation reaction, light emission, simple scattering and antenna theory, properties of waveguides, relativistic formulation of electrodynamics, and Fourier decomposition of fields. Prerequisites: PHYS 214, PHYS 325.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours. Gaussian beams; guided-wave optics; fiber optics; optical resonators; resonant cavities; laser oscillation and amplification; laser excitation; optical pumping; solid state, gas, dye, chemical, excimer, and free electron lasers; semiconductor lasers; laser spectroscopy; fiber optic communication; photomultiplier and semiconductor radiation detectors including photoconductors, junction photodiodes; p-i-n diodes, avalanche photodiodes; detector noise. Prerequisite: PHYS 314 or consent of instructor.
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2.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours. The laws of thermodynamics: Boltzmann, Bose, and Fermi statistics; applications. Prerequisite: PHYS 314.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours. The Schr?dinger equation, coordinate and momentum representation, harmonic oscillator, angular momentum and spin, Hilbert space, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, completeness relations, central potentials, hydrogen atom, scattering, perturbation theory, and Dirac notation. Extensive use of a symbolic processing program. Prerequisites: PHYS 314 and 325.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours. Advanced topics in experimental quantum physics, photonics (including fiber optic systems and lasers), materials science (including scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy), X-ray analysis, applied nuclear physics, medical physics, and biophysics. Prerequisites: PHYS 366 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours. Semiconductor materials, crystal structure and growth; energy bands and charge carriers, conductivity and mobility; metal-semiconductor and p-n junctions; p-n junction diodes; bipolar junction transistors; field-effect transistors; CCDs; photonic devices and integrated circuits. Projects in photolithography, conductivity and contact resistance measurements, I-V and C-V characteristics of diodes, and characterization of transistors may be assigned. Prerequisite: PHYS 314 or consent of instructor.
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2.00 Credits
A directed project to develop at least one laboratory experiment and/or classroom activity that teaches basic concepts in undergraduate physics. Both written and oral presentations (including a demonstration of the experiment or activity) will be required. Prerequisite: Physics 214 and 216 or Physics 210B and 209B.
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