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Applications of physics to the study of Earth structure from crust to core. Seismology, magnetics, gravity, and geodesy. Explores history of Earth's formation, current geologic and tectonic problems, and uniqueness of interpretation issues. Prerequisite: Calc 1 (MA 125 or 126). Introductory Physics (PA 141 or 241), and Geology 260 or consent of instructor. (Also listed as Geology 308.) 1 unit - Anderson.
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Vector functions, divergence and curl. Green's and Stokes's theorems, and the properties of three-dimensional curves and surfaces. Related topics from linear algebra and differential equations. Prerequisite: Mathematics 203. (Also listed as Mathematics 311.) 1 unit - DiCenzo.
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The theory of Fourier series, the Fourier transform, and orthogonal polynomials. Applications to the classical partial differential equations of physics and to theoretical mathematics. Prerequisite: Mathematics 220 or 311. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Courses offered under this rubric will vary year to year. Prerequisite: Physics 251. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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A survey of the physical and chemical components of weather, air pollution and climate at both global and local scales that will outline local, national and global political responses to threats to our atmospheric environment. Prerequisite: Physics 251. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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Forces, potentials and motion according to Newton, Lagrange and Hamilton. Conditions for conservation of momentum, energy and angular momentum. Topics such as gravitation, oscillations, chaos, scattering and things that go bump in the night. Prerequisite: 251 and Mathematics 203 or Consent of Instructor. 1 unit - Hilt Prerequisite: Consent of instructor or Physics 251 and Mathematics 203. 1 unit - Lang.
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First and second laws of thermodynamics and their applications. Statistical mechanics, kinetic theory, elementary transport processes. Maxwell-Bolzman, Fermi Dirac, and Bose-Einstein statistics and their applications in solid state, nuclear and molecular physics. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor or Physics 251 and Mathematics 203. 1 unit - Whitten.
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The theory of electricity and magnetism: electric charges, forces, fields and potentials; electric currents, magnetic forces, fields and potentials. Electromagnetic induction. Maxwell's equations, plane waves in vacuum. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor or Physics 251, 311. 1 unit - Hilt.
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The continuation of 353. Electromagnetic fields in matter: conduction, polarization, magnetization; a brief introduction to condensed matter physics. Plane waves in linear media, boundary conditions, interference, diffraction. Radiation from simple sources, coherence. Prerequisite: Physics 353. 1 unit - Hilt.
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An introduction to stellar structure and physical cosmology: the observed properties of stars, the physics of stellar interiors, mathematical models for stars, how stars evolve, the origin of the chemical elements, the expanding universe, cosmological models, the age of the universe. Prerequisite: Physics 251. 1 unit - Burns.
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