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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: Satisfaction of Level I General Studies course requirements This course will consider the basic nature of sound waves, the ear and hearing, musical instruments, and acoustics. Although this course is mainly descriptive, some high school algebra will be used. (General Studies-Level II, Natural Science)
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5.00 Credits
2 (0 + 4) Prerequisite: PHY 2811 This is the first term of a one-year sequence in laboratory work at the junior level. Topics include electrical measurements, electrical measuring systems, and experimental optics.
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5.00 Credits
2 (0 + 4) Prerequisite: PHY 2811 This is a continuation of PHY 3711.
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: MTH 3420, PHY 2811, PHY 2711 or Permission of instructor This is a course in which both wave mechanics and matrix mechanics are developed and applied to selected problems in atomic physics. Particular topics include solutions to the time-independent Schr dinger equation for the hydrogen atom, tunneling, the harmonic oscillator, electron spin, and approximation methods.
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5.00 Credits
4 (4 + 0) Prerequisite: MTH 3420 and PHY 2711, or Permission of instructor This is a course in electricity and magnetism at the intermediate level. Topics include Maxwell's equations, boundary value problems, electrodynamics, and electromagnetic radiation.
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PHY 2711 or equivalent This course presents a contemporary treatment of selected topics in optics, such as matrix methods in geometrical optics, the Fourier analysis approach to physical optics, and the interaction of light with matter.
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PHY 2711, MTH 3420 This course covers stellar astrophysics, solar physics, star formation, stellar evolution, processes in the interstellar medium, galactic dynamics and evolution, formation of galaxies, and cosmology.
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5.00 Credits
2 (0 + 4) Prerequisite: PHY 2811, PHY 2711, MTH 3420, satisfaction of all Level I and Level II General Studies requirements and Senior standing or Permission of instructor This course introduces more advanced methods of computational physics. Several complex physical phenomena are modeled numerically. Topics include nonlinear second-order differential equations associated with Newton's second law, partial differential equations associated with the wave equation, heat diffusion, Schr dinger's equation, and methods of fitting and analyzing data. (Senior Experience)
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5.00 Credits
2 (0 + 4) Prerequisite: PHY 4611 and satisfaction of all Level I and Level II General Studies course requirements and Senior standing This is a course that assigns the student to an individual advanced, advanced level project modeling a physical phenomenon on the computer. (Senior Experience)
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PHY 3120 or equivalent A course that presents the basic physical principles of fluid mechanics and elasticity together with their application to various problems in astronomy, physics, geology, and medicine.
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