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| PHYS 1010 - Physics Colloquium |
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Introduces new physics and astronomy students to the physics major. Topics include degree requirements, faculty resources, research opportunities, and career options. Half of the meetings will involve one hour lectures during class, and half will involve attending talks, some of which may occur outside the scheduled class meeting time.
1.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 1030 - Concepts of Physics and Lab |
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4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture University College Department Course Attributes: TN eCampus (formerly RODP), GE Current: Natural Sci RODP, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 1110 - Discovering Physics |
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Prerequisite: MATH 1710, 1730, or 1630. Uncovers the fundamental concepts of physics in a hands-on approach that involves observations, measurements, forming hypotheses, and validation of ideas in groups of students' peers. Combined lecture/laboratory sessions.
TBC: Scientific Literacy (Discovery)
4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Combined Lecture/Lab Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: Tutoring Courses, College of Basic & Applied, Gen Ed - Natural Science Block, GE Current: Natural Science, TBC-SciLit Discovery Course, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 1600 - Physics of Music |
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Prerequisite: MATH 1710, MATH 1730, MATH 1810, or MATH 1910 or consent of instructor. The physics of music, acoustics, and sound for students without prior physics background.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 2010 - Non-Calculus-Based Physics I |
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Prerequisite: MATH 1710, MATH 1730, MATH 1810, or MATH 1910 with a minimum grade of C (2.0). Required corequisite: PHYS 2011. Web-based discussion class to be taken in conjunction with cooperative-learning based problems lab PHYS 2011. Classical mechanics traditionally covered in a first-semester college physics course. Kinematics, forces, momentum, angular motion, calorimetry, and sound waves. Class time used for discussion of the Web-lecture material and for the administration of exams. TBR Common Course: PHYS 2010
TBC: Scientific Literacy (Discovery)
0.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: Tutoring Courses, Gen Ed - Natural Science Block, TBC-SciLit Discovery Course, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 2011 - Physics Problems Laboratory I |
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Prerequisite: MATH 1710, MATH 1730, MATH 1810, or MATH 1910 with a minimum grade of C (2.0). Required corequisite: PHYS 2010. Group-oriented problems course taken in conjunction with the Web-based discussion class PHYS 2010. Students work in groups with the topics presented in the PHYS 2010 discussion class. Covers kinematics, forces, momentum, angular motion, calorimetry, and sound waves. Skills associated with the development of experimental investigations including graphical analysis and estimation of uncertainties emphasized. Two two-and-one-half-hour laboratory sessions. TBR Common Course: PHYS 2011
4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Laboratory Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: Tutoring Courses, College of Basic & Applied, Gen Ed - Natural Science Block, GE Current: Natural Science, TBC-SciLit Discovery Course, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 2020 - Non-Calculus-Based Physics II |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 2011. Required corequisite: PHYS 2021. Web-based discussion class taken in conjunction with the cooperative-learning based problems lab PHYS 2021. Fundamentals of optics, modern physics, and electronics traditionally covered in a second-semester college physics course. Reflection and refraction, vision, diffraction effects, quantum mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics, and analog and digital electronics. Scheduled class time is used for discussions of the Web-lecture material and for the administration of exams. TBR Common Course: PHYS 2020
0.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: Tutoring Courses, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 2021 - Physics Problems Laboratory II |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 2011. Required corequisite: PHYS 2020. Group-oriented problems course to be taken in conjunction with the Web-based discussion class PHYS 2020. Students work in groups with the topics presented in the PHYS 2020 discussion class. Optics, modern physics, and electronics traditionally covered in a second-semester college physics course. Reflection and refraction, vision, diffraction effects, quantum mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics, and analog and digital electronics. The skills associated with the development of experimental investigations including graphical analysis and estimation of uncertainties emphasized. Two two-and-one-half-hour laboratory sessions. TBR Common Course: PHYS 2021
4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Laboratory Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: Tutoring Courses, College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 2110 - Calculus-Based Physics I |
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Prerequisite: MATH 1910 with a minimum grade of C (2.0). Corequisite: PHYS 2111. A calculus-based introduction to mechanics and wave motion. One and one-half hours lecture. TBR Common Course: PHYS 2110
TBC: Scientific Literacy (Discovery)
0.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: Tutoring Courses, Gen Ed - Natural Science Block, GE Current: Natural Science, TBC-SciLit Discovery Course, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 2111 - Calculus-Based Physics Laboratory I |
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Prerequisite: MATH 1910 with a minimum grade of C (2.0). Corequisite: PHYS 2110. Laboratory course to accompany PHYS 2110. Experiments in mechanics, waves, and thermodynamics. Data reduction, error analysis, and report writing. Two three-hour sessions. TBR Common Course: PHYS 2111
4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Laboratory Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: Tutoring Courses, College of Basic & Applied, Gen Ed - Natural Science Block, GE Current: Natural Science, TBC-SciLit Discovery Course, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 2120 - Calculus-Based Physics II |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 2111; MATH 1920 with a minimum grade of C (2.0). Required corequisite: PHYS 2121. A lecture course that supplements the discussion in PHYS 2121. Topics include a microscopic view of electrical force and field, polarization, electric circuits, magnetic force and field, electric potential, symmetries of fields, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic radiation, optics, and wave phenomena. One and one-half hours lecture.
0.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: Tutoring Courses, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 2121 - Calculus-Based Physics Laboratory II |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 2111; MATH 1920 with a minimum grade of C (2.0). Required corequisite: PHYS 2120. A laboratory-based course to accompany PHYS 2120. Includes discussions, group problem solving, and hands-on activities. Two three-hour sessions. TBR Common Course: PHYS 2121
4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Laboratory Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: Tutoring Courses, College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 2270 - Introduction to Quantum Computing |
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Prerequisite: MATH 1910 with grade of C- or better. Basic of quantum information, quantum fundamentals, qubit, quantum gates, entanglement, quantum algorithms.
2.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College |
| PHYS 3050 - Directed Study in Physics |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 2021 or 2120 and approval of department chair. Individualized intensive study of a specific topic in physics not normally covered to the extent desired in the standard curriculum. Arrangements must be made with an approved faculty member prior to registration.
1.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3100 - Modern Physics I |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 2021 or PHYS 2121 and MATH 1920 with a minimum grade of C (2.0). Introduction to the fundamental principles of modern physics (special relativity and quantum mechanics) and their application to atomic physics.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3110 - Modern Physics II |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 3100. Survey of major topics including molecular physics, statistical physics, solid state physics and solid state devices, nuclear models, nuclear decay and reaction, and elementary particle physics.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3111 - Modern Physics Laboratory |
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Prerequisite or corequisite: PHYS 3100. Concepts and ideas which formed the basis for an understanding of the atom and atomic phenomena. One hour lecture and one three-hour independent study laboratory.
1.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Laboratory Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3150 - Topics and Methods of Theoretical Physics I |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 2021 or PHYS 2121 and MATH 1920 with a minimum grade of C (2.0). Theoretical techniques used for problem solving in physics. Reference frames and coordinate systems, approximation techniques, solution of electrical circuits and mechanical systems, simple harmonic motion and wave motion, Maxwell's equations.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3160 - Topics and Methods of Theoretical Physics II |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 3150. A continuation of PHYS 3150. The Schroedinger equation, heat flow, diffusion, the Lagrangian description of motion.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3200 - Scientific Modeling and Problem Solving |
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Prerequisites: MATH 1920 and PHYS 2021 or PHYS 2120 or PHYS 2121 or consent of instructor. Techniques of computational physics as applied to the solution of scientific problems.
2.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Combined Lecture/Lab Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3300 - Classical Mechanics |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 3110 and MATH 3120 or PHYS 3150. Mechanics (including statics and dynamics) of particles in three dimensions using vector analysis, motion of rigid bodies, Lagrangian mechanics, and Hamilton's equations.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3330 - Health Physics and Radiation Protection |
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Radiation protection methods, dosimetry techniques, and survey instruments. Practical knowledge of the methodology for paramedical personnel, industrial workers, and others who deal with radioisotopes and X-ray equipment. Two hours lecture and one three-hour laboratory.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3350 - Concepts and Applications of Analog Electronics |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 2021 or PHYS 2121 or ET 3610 with C or better. Introduction to contemporary analog electronics utilizing integrated circuits to treat traditional circuits, power supplies, operational amplifiers, comparators, and multivibrators. Conversion of analog to digital signal for interfacing to microcomputers. Emphasis on practical applications. Three hours lecture and one three-hour laboratory.
4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Combined Lecture/Lab Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3370 - Quantum Computing Applications |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 2270 with a grade of C- or better. Quantum applications, Qiskit, hand-on quantum computing, and quantum algorithms.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3400 - Intermediate Physics |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 2021 or PHYS 2121 and MATH 1920. Provides an intermediated treatment of the principles of thermodynamics, electromagnetics, and oscillatory behavior with applications. Course is not intended for physics majors participating in the Professional Physics concentration. Three hours lecture.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3520 - Optics and Photonics |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 2021 or PHYS 2121 and MATH 1920 both with a minimum grade of C (2.0). Optical science with applications. Addresses geometrical optics and wave optics with a focus on real world applications from the very large to the nanoscale.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Combined Lecture/Lab Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3610 - Thermodynamics |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 3110 and 3150 or consent of instructor. Introduction to statistical physics, kinetic theory, and thermodynamics from a unified microscopic point of view. Selected applications to various systems of interest presented.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3800 - Physics Seminar |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 3100. Develops and refines inquiry, communication, and presentation skills through exposure to new developments in physics, technical brief writing, and resume and job interview preparations.
1.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3900 - Physics Practicum |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 3110 and consent of instructor. Refines thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills through exposure to on-the-spot technical questions and a laboratory teaching experience as an assistant in an introductory physics laboratory. One hour lecture and two two-and-one-half hour experiences as a teaching assistant to be scheduled with department faculty.
1.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Practicum Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3910 - Advanced Physics Laboratory |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 2021 or 2120 and 2121. The skills, art, and physics important in pursuing independent research. Experiments dealing with mechanical, optical, or thermodynamic principles explored. Report writing, literature research, and the use of analysis tools emphasized. One hour lecture and one three-hour independent study laboratory.
1.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Laboratory Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3920 - Advanced Physics Laboratory |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 2021 or 2120 and 2121. The skills, art, and physics important in pursuing independent research. Experiments dealing with mechanical, optical, or thermodynamic principles explored. Report writing, literature research, and the use of analysis tools emphasized.
1.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Laboratory Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3930 - The Teaching of Physics |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 2021, PHYS 2121, and MATH 1920 with C or better. Introduces physics teaching pedagogies resulting from physics education research. Methods studied to include inquiry, discovery, and modeling-based approaches. Seminar meeting will be supplemented with extensive experience as a learning assistant in a hands-on cooperative-learning and/or discovery-learning based introductory physics course.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3950 - Reasoning in Physics I: Mechanics |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 2021 or PHYS 2121 and MATH 1920 with C or better. Develops skills of reasoning and articulating physics concepts for improved understanding and performance on physics exams and upper-level courses. Focuses on topics typically covered in the first semester of introductory physics. One one-hour, twenty-five minute lecture per week.
1.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 3960 - Reasoning in Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 2021 or PHYS 2121 and MATH 1920 with C or better. Develops skills of reasoning and articulating physics concepts for improved understanding and performance on physics exams and upper-level courses. Focuses on topics typically covered in the second semester of introductory physics. One-hour twenty-five minutes lecture per week.
1.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 4310 - Electricity and Magnetism |
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Prerequisites: MATH 3110 and MATH 3120 and PHYS 3110 or PHYS 3160. Topics including electric and magnetic fields, electrostatic potential, and potential energy and fields in matter, discussed in a mathematically rigorous manner. A variety of good applications of mathematical methods in physics.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 4330 - Electricity and Magnetism II |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 3160 and PHYS 4310. Topics include theory of electromagnetic radiation, production and propagation of electromagnetic waves, and the solution of boundary-value problems with applications to optics, wave guides, and lasers.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 4380 - Quantum Mechanics |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 3110 and MATH 3120 and (PHYS 3110 or PHYS 3160). Topics include both one- and three-dimensional solutions to the Schroedinger equation, including the infinite square-well, finite square-well, tunneling, the harmonic oscillator, and the hydrogen atom with a discussion of angular momentum at a mathematically rigorous undergraduate level.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 4390 - Advanced Quantum Mechanics |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 3160 and PHYS 4380. Advanced topics in quantum mechanics, including time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory, systems of indistinguishable particles, the Aharonov-Bohm effect, Fermi's Golden Rule, and an introduction to quantum field theory.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 4630 - Principles of the Solid State |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 3110 and 3150. Includes crystal structures, lattice dynamics, statistics of conductors and semiconductors, thermal properties, the metallic state, free electron theory, band theory of solids, dielectric and magnetic properties of solids, and the low temperature behavior of matter, particularly solids. Three hours lecture.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 4740 - Research Methods |
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(Same as ABAS/BIOL/CHEMGEOL/MATH/PHYS 4740.) Prerequisite: YOED 3520. Provides secondary science and mathematics teacher candidates with the tools that scientists use to solve scientific problems. Students will use these tools in a laboratory setting, communicate findings, and understand how scientists develop new knowledge.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Combined Lecture/Lab Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 4800 - Special Topics in Physics Special Topics A |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 3110 and PHYS 3160; an extensive physics background and permission of instructor. Detailed study of a selected topic of current interest in physics not normally covered in the regular undergraduate physics curriculum. Possible topics include advanced atomic physics, high-energy physics (nuclear and elementary particles), scattering theory, astrophysics, and general relativity.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 4810 - Special Topics in Physics Special Topics B |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 3110 and PHYS 3160; an extensive physics background and permission of instructor. Detailed study of a selected topic of current interest in physics not normally covered in the regular undergraduate physics curriculum. Possible topics include advanced atomic physics, high-energy physics (nuclear and elementary particles), scattering theory, astrophysics, and general relativity.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 4850 - Physics Research |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 3110 and consent of instructor. Independent study of a selected research problem in physics. Includes experimental and/or theoretical investigation of an important, yet unexplored, problem. Includes literature research, experiment design/problem formulation and execution, resulting in oral and written presentation of results suitable for submission for publication in a suitable journal. One hour lecture and significant time working with research mentor.
2.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Research Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 4860 - Physics Research |
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Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Independent study of a selected research problem in physics. Includes experimental and/or theoretical investigation of an important, yet unexplored, problem. Includes literature research, experiment design/problem formulation and execution, resulting in oral and written presentation of results suitable for submission for publication in a suitable journal. One hour lecture and significant additional time working with research mentor.
2.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Research Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 4900 - Physics Senior Thesis |
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Prerequisites: PHYS 4850 or PHYS 4860 and consent of department chair. Brings undergraduate experience to focus on a specific research problem; chosen with the consent of the thesis committee and with the potential for original discovery or for creative development of a tool or technique applicable to scientific research. Independent pursuit of research objectives outlined in a research proposal results in a written thesis whose approval will include an oral defense. One hour lecture and independent writing of thesis.
2.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Research Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied, Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
| PHYS 5310 - Electricity and Magnetism |
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Topics including electric and magnetic fields, electrostatic potential, and potential energy and fields in matter discussed in a mathematically rigorous manner. A variety of good applications of mathematical methods in physics.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied |
| PHYS 5380 - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics |
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Origin of quantum theory; wave packets and deBroglie waves; Heisenberg uncertainty principles. Schroedinger wave equation, operators, eigenfunctions, square well potential, the harmonic oscillator, the hydrogen atom, molecular binding and molecular spectra.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied |
| PHYS 6330 - Principles of Modern Physics |
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Charged particles and their behaviors; electronic structures of the atoms; nuclear structures and processes; and radiation.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied |
| PHYS 6340 - Fundamentals of Physics |
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Basic laws and principles of classical and modern physics. Lecture topics and laboratory experiences designed to advance student's knowledge of physics.
6.000 Credit hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Combined Lecture/Lab Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied |
| PHYS 7010 - Principles of Molecular Biophysics |
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Prerequisite: PHYS 2021 or 2120 or permission of department. Reviews the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids, and the forces and interactions maintaining their structures in solution; thermodynamics and kinetics of protein folding; polymer chain statistics and helix-coil transitions in biopolymers; biopolymer dynamics; structural methods in biology; X-ray crystallography, NMR and fluorescence spectroscopy, electron and probe microscopy, single-molecule methods.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: College of Basic & Applied |
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1.000 TO 99.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department |
| PHYS ELUD - UD: |
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1.000 TO 99.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics and Astronomy Department Course Attributes: Credit from 4-Year College, Upper-Division Work |
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