14 courses with the subject PHYS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
4 sem. hrs. This course covers the basic ideas and techniques of astronomy, the night sky; star physics and evolution; contents and structures of galaxies; black holes and cosmology. Nighttime telescope work, weather permitting.
4 sem. hrs. Offered annually, spring semester. A calculus-based introductory course for all science, mathematics, and pre-engineering students. Particle kinematics; vectors; Newton’s law; forces and their effects; energy conservation; systems of particles; momentum conservation; introductory rotational kinematics.
4 sem. hrs. Offered annually, fall semester. A continuation of PHYS 111L. Traveling and standing waves; Electrostatics in vacuum and in materials (Coulomb’s and Gauss’s laws); Magnetostatics (Biot-Savart’s and Ampere’s laws); Faraday’s law of induction; lenses and mirrors; interference and diffraction of light.
4 sem. hrs. Offered alternate years. Introduction to analog and digital electronics. DC and AV circuit theory, impedance, filters, CO UR S E S 195
2-4 sem. hrs. Offered every semester. Graded: S/U. Individually arranged participation in research with industry or a university. This course will not satisfy any requirement in the mathematics/physics major or minor.
1-3 sem. hrs. May be repeated for credit. In-depth study of an area of special interest. Topic determined jointly by a faculty member and student(s) in consultation. Meets weekly for one hour.
3 sem. hrs. Offered alternate years. This course completes the introductory sequence in physics. Topics: the photoeffect; black- body radiation; other early results in atomic physics; Schrodinger equation in one and three dimensions; hydrogen atom; atomic spectroscopy; introduction to quantum statistical mechanics, and applications.
3 sem. hrs. Offered alternate years. An advanced theoretical study of Newton’s laws, making use of numerical computing. Dynamics of particles, orbits, coupled systems, damped oscillators, phase portraits, periodicity, and chaos are topics typically covered.
3 sem. hrs. Offered alternate years, fall semesters. Special emphasis on those aspects of the subject pertinent to biology and biochemistry. Gases and liquids; thermodynamics and thermochemistry; properties of solutions; chemical equilibria; electrode potentials; reaction kinetics.
3 sem. hrs. Offered alternate years. 196 CO URSES
3 sem. hrs. Offered alternate years. Advanced laboratory work in the physical sciences, using a variety of specialized equipment (examples: Cavendish torsion balance; frequency response analysis of mechanical systems using Fourier methods; hyperfine splitting of rubidium vapor using Doppler methods; measurement of the e/m ratio).
3 sem. hrs. Offered as needed. May be repeated for credit. In-depth study of selected advanced topic in physics, such as Electricity and Magnetism; Quantum Mechanics; or Thermal and Statistical Physics.
3 sem. hrs. Offered as needed. Advanced work or research relevant to the discipline created under the supervision of, or in conjunction with, a faculty member.
1 sem. hr. May be repeated for credit. These courses are available for students who have demonstrated an ability to work without close supervision. Student(s) and faculty members develop the course together on a relevant topic.
Source: Wells College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
