27 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.
PHYS 140Physics for Future Leaders1
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3,Other:3The science behind key issues facing us as engaged citizens and future leaders. Topics include energy, climate change, space travel, and technology, as well as the processes that lead to scientific progress. Designed for non-science majors. No prerequisites. Not open to students who have completed a 200-level physics course.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3,Other:3The great ideas of 20th-century physics (symmetry principles, relativity, and quantum mechanics) and their application to cosmology and the evolution of the universe. Also, historical development and philosophical implications of these ideas. Designed for non-science majors. No prerequisite. Not open to students who have successfully completed a 200-level physics course.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3,Other:3Particle and wave theories of light, cameras and optical instruments, the visual process, lasers, and optical communications. Designed for non-science majors. No prerequisite. Not open to students who have successfully completed a 200-level physics course.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:1,Other:3Timekeeping from astronomical to mechanical to atomic, time in physics from classical to relativistic to quantum, the physics of time from irreversibility to simultaneity to singularity. Designed for nonscience majors. No prerequisites. Not open to students who have successfully completed a 200-level physics course.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3,Other:3This course introduces the ideas of physics in the context of everyday phenomena, including common inventions and topics in medicine, sports, and music. Designed for non-science majors. No prerequisite. Not open to students who have successfully completed a 200-level physics course.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3The tug of war between human frailties and yearning for peace has generated a plethora of scientific discoveries and technological innovations: electro-magnetism, wireless communications, lasers, the Internet, hypersonic missiles, and nuclear reactions. Designed for non-science majors. No prerequisites. Not open to students who have successfully completed a 200-level physics course.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Other:3Examination of energy, its transformations, its effects on resource depletion, and environmental degradation. Models of sustainability for transportation, architecture, waste management, and personal lifestyle choices. Designed for non-science majors. No prerequisite. Not open to students who have successfully completed a 200-level physics course.
Offered Fall Semester Only,TLC Tutoring Course; Lecture hours:2,Other:5The first course in a two-course sequence that surveys major areas of physics. Topics include Newtonian mechanics, relativity, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, and gravity. Corequisite: MATH 201.
TLC Tutoring Course,Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:2,Other:5The second course in a two-course sequence that surveys major areas of physics. Topics include electricity and magnetism, light and waves, quantum mechanics, and particle physics. Prerequisites: PHYS 211 and MATH 201, or permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:3Newtonian mechanics including conservation laws, rotational dynamics, forced damped harmonic motion, and coupled oscillations. Prerequisites: PHYS 211 and MATH 202.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Other:2Physics of coupled oscillations and waves, including classical wave equation. Wave-particle duality; origin and elementary applications of quantum mechanics; the Schroedinger wave equation; atomic and nuclear physics. Prerequisites: PHYS 212P with a minimum grade of D or PHYS 212E with a minimum grade of D.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:2,Lab:4Circuit fundamentals, linear and digital integrated circuits, transducers, analog to digital conversion, filtering, Fourier methods, microcomputers, and computer interfacing. Designed for science and computer science majors. Prerequisite: PHYS 212 (or PHYS 212E). Open to electrical engineering students by permission only.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3An introduction to general astrophysics covering mechanics of orbiting bodies, radiation laws, stellar spectra, stellar atmospheres, the internal constitution of stars, stellar energy, galaxies and cosmology. Prerequisites: PHYS 222 and MATH 202, or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ASTR 301.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Geometrical optics, interference and diffraction, and topics such as: quantum optics, optical properties of matter, lasers and holography. Prerequisite: PHYS 222 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:1,Other:5Methods and techniques used in experimental and computational physics, including data analysis and numerical methods, use of standard research equipment, and documentation of laboratory work emphasizing written and oral communication of scientific results. Prerequisite: PHYS 222 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Alternating Fall Semester; Lecture hours:1,Other:5Methods and techniques used in experimental and computational biophysics, including optical tweezers, microscopy, computational methods, use of standard research equipment, and documentation of laboratory work emphasizing written and oral communication of scientific results. Juniors and seniors majoring in Biophysics only. Not open to first-year or sophomore students. Biophysics major only.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3The laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic functions, kinetic theory of gases, statistical mechanics. Prerequisites: PHYS 212 (or PHYS 212E) and either PHYS 221 or PHYS 222, or permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Kinematics and dynamics of particles, systems, and rigid bodies. Hamilton's principles, Lagrange's equations, theory of small vibrations, orbital mechanics, accelerated frames, and nonlinear dynamics. Prerequisites: PHYS 221.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Basic postulates and applications, perturbation theory, angular momentum, scattering theory, relativistic effects. Prerequisites: PHYS 222 and MATH 211, or permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Classical electromagnetic theory, including scalar and vector potentials, electrostatics, magnetostatics, time-dependent fields, and culminating with Maxwell's equations. Prerequisites: PHYS 212 (or PHYS 212E) and MATH 211. Juniors and seniors only, except by permission.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3Continuation of PHYS 333. Electromagnetic waves, radiation theory, theory of relativity, and elements of plasma physics. Prerequisite: PHYS 333.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Topics will include two or three of the following: complex variables, special functions, tensor analysis, group theory, partial differential equations. Prerequisites: PHYS 221 and PHYS 222, MATH 212 and MATH 245, or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PHYS 636.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableIndependent study in areas of current interest in the physics and astronomy community. Prerequisites: permission of the department and permission of the instructor.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableIntroduction to the use of numerical simulations in physics. Students learn through frequent programming exercises in computer labs, and via a semester long project. The course includes scientific literature searches, data analysis, and scientific oral and written presentations. Prerequisite: PHYS 221.
PHYS 339Advanced Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics1
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3Advanced topics in quantum mechanics including applications to elementary particle physics. Prerequisite: PHYS 332, or permission of instructor.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3Physics of cellular structures and processes, with emphasis on mechanics and thermodynamics. Juniors and seniors only. Prerequisite: PHYS 212 or PHYS 212E and either PHYS 221 or PHYS 222 or permission of the instructor.
