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Historical development and significance of major concepts, with emphasis on the nature of physics and its role in modern life. (For students in non-mathematical fi more...
08/24/2009-12/11/2009 Credits:
3.0
Satisfies General Education - Natural Sciences (GN)
General Physics: Wave Motion and Quantum Physics REQS RGSTR IN 214R
Calculus-based study of the basic concepts of wave motion, geometrical optics,interference phenomena, photons, wave mechanics, and the structure of matter.
10/15/2009-12/11/2009 Credits:
0.0
Satisfies General Education - Natural Sciences (GN)
General Physics: Wave Motion and Quantum Physics REQS RGSTR IN 214L
Calculus-based study of the basic concepts of wave motion, geometrical optics,interference phenomena, photons, wave mechanics, and the structure of matter.
10/14/2009-12/11/2009 Credits:
2.0
Satisfies General Education - Natural Sciences (GN)
Electrostatics, steady-state magnetic field; electrical and magnetic properties of matter; Maxwell's equations, boundary-value problems, and wave propagation.
General theory of angular momentum; approximation methods; scattering theory; radiation theory; applications to atomic, molecular, condensed matter, nuclear and particl more...
Crystal symmetry, x-ray structure analysis, lattice vibrations, thermal properties, free electron transport theory, elementary one-electron quantum theory of solids.
Principles of Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian mechanics of particles with applications to vibrations, rotations, orbital motion, and collisions.
Basic postulates of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, microscopic quantum states and macroscopic parameters; partition functions; Maxwell- Boltzmann and quant more...
Foundations of general relativity, elements of differential geometry, Einstein's equation, Newtonian limit, gravity waves, Friedmann cosmologies and Schwarzschild s more...
Electrons in periodic potentials; single electron approximations; lattice dynamics; electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of solids; transport theory.
This course focuses on interfacial and surface phenomena; structural, electronic, vibrational and thermodynamic properties; physisorption and chemisorption; phas more...
Critical phenomena using field theoretical and renormalization group techni- ques; solvable statistical models and conformal field study; fluctuations and random processe more...
Complex variables, Hilbert spaces, linear operators, calculus of variations, Fourier analysis, Green's functions, distributions, differential equations, and special functio more...
Introduction to numerical methods for modeling physical phenomena in condensed matter, atomic and high energy physics, gravitation, cosmology and astrophy.
Baryons and mesons; leptons and quarks; electromagnetic and weak inter- actions and their unification; quantum chromodynamics; experimental techni- ques.
Canonical and functional integral quantization of relativistic and non- relativistic field theories; Feynman diagrams; spontaneous symmetry breaking; renormalization gro more...