| Course Name | Web-page Link |
Description |
| Principles of Physics I&II | PHY.115 PHY.116 |
Combined lecture/laboratory algebra-based introductory physics courses where the Workshop Physics method of guided inquiry through hands-on experiments and computer simulations is combined with Blackboard instructional technology. |
| General
Physics I & II |
PHY.125 PHY.126 |
Combined lecture/laboratory calculus-based introductory physics course based on a non-traditional interactive physics method of guided inquiry through hands-on experiments and computer simulations. |
| Modern Physics | PHY.220 | Physics 220 is an
introductory
course in Modern Physics (or Nonclassical Physics as I prefer to call
it)
designed for the student who has completed a calculus-based General
Physics
(introductory Classical Physics) course. Introduction to Quantum
Mechanics
constitutes the core of the course. We discuss theoretical ideas and various experiments that revolutionized our understanding of nature and led to the development of new fields such as atoms and molecular physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear and elementary physics, astrophysics, quantum chemistry, biophysics etc. |
| Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics | PHY-300 | Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics is a course designed for Physics and Chemistry majors. Statistical Physics (together with Quantum Physics) is one of the fundamental disciplines on which modern physics research (in condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, biophysics, physical chemistry, etc.) relies. This course is devoted to a discussion of some of the basic physical concepts and methods appropriate for the description of systems involving many particles (gases, liquids, crystals). It is intended, in particular, to present thermodynamics and statistical physics from the unified and modern point of view. |
| Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences | PHY.280 | One-semester course intended for a student with at least one year of calculus who wants to develop, in a short time, a basic competence in each of many areas of mathematics needed in junior and senior courses in physics, chemistry and engineering. It is also designed for more advanced students, who have taken Linear Algebra and/or Differential Equations in the past, to review some topics and find a way to apply them to relevant problems in the physical sciences. Computer laboratory work using the symbolic/numerical/graphical package MAPLE is incorporated in the course. |
| Introduction
to Materials Science |
PHY.330 | NSF-funded team-taught interdisciplinary integrated lecture/laboratory upper-level course that will be offered in Spring 2003 jointly with the Department of Chemistry. It will use investigative, hands-on projects that model modern research collaborations in physics and chemistry. It will adapt an innovative, expert/novice, peer-learning scheme from Miami University in which students from two disciplines learn from each other. The hands-on projects in the course include the study of metals, semiconductors, superconductors, polymers, and other materials science topics presented from the perspective of both disciplines. |
| Classical Mechanics |
PHY.340 |
This course presents kinematics and dynamics of particles using Newtonian, Langrangian and Hamiltonian techniques. Topics include central force motion, oscillations and normal mode analysis, non-linear dynamics, rotating rigid bodies and motion in non-inertial reference frames. |