Undergraduate Catalogue - UPRM

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
HECTOR MENDEZ, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
1990, CINVESTAV (Centro de Investigación y de
Estudios Avanzados), Mexico City, Mexico.
RUBEN A. MENDEZ-PLACIDO,
Ph.D., 1988, University of Florida.
Professor,
LESZEK NOWAKOWSKI, Professor, Ph.D., 1983,
N. Copernicus University-Torun, Poland.
MOISES ORENGO-AVILES, Professor, Ph.D.,
1996, Brown University.
CARLOS U. PABON, Associate Professor, Ph.D.,
1994, City College of New York.
LUIS M. QUIÑONES-RODRIGUEZ, Professor,
Ph.D., 1973, Purdue University-Indiana.
JUAN E. RAMIREZ, Assistant Profesor, Ph.D.,
2002, University of Colorado at Boulder.
RAFAEL A. RAMOS, Associate Professor, Ph.D.,
1994, Boston University.
PATRICK D. RAPP, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
1974, Columbia University.
ERICK ROURA-DAVILA, Assistant Professor,
Ph.D., 2001, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
MAHARAJ S. TOMAR, Professor, Ph.D., 1973,
University of Roorkee, India.
ESOV VELAZQUEZ, Associate Professor, Ph.D.,
1999, University of Puerto Rico.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Undergraduate Courses
FISI 3000. ORIENTATION FOR PHYSICS
MAJORS. Non-credit. One hour seminar per
week. Prerequisite: Student in the Physics
Department.
Academic and professional orientation for students
entering the Department of Physics.
FISI 3028. ELECTROMAGNETISM FOR
TEACHERS. Four credit hours. Three hours of
lecture and one three-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: FISI 3027.
Introduction to electromagnetism for high school
teachers, including teaching methodologies and
techniques. Topics include Coulomb’s Law,
electric fields, electric potential, circuits, magnetic
force, Biot-Savart’s law, magnetic induction, and
electromagnetic waves.
FISI 3029. MODERN PHYSICS FOR
TEACHERS. Four credit hours. Three hours of
lecture and one three-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: FISI 3028.
Introduction to modern physics for high schools
teachers, including methodologies and techniques.
Topics include special relativity, the photoelectric
effect, blackbody radiation, the Compton effect,
atomic spectra, Bohr’s atom, quantum mechanics,
and nuclear physics.
FISI 3091. ELEMENTS OF PHYSICS. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: MATE 3172 or MATE 3174 or
MATE 3005 or MATE 3143.
Basic concepts of mechanics, thermodynamics,
optics, and electromagnetism oriented specially
towards agriculture.
FISI 3092. ELEMENTS OF PHYSICS
LABORATORY. One credit hour. One two-hour
laboratory per week. Co-requisite: FISI 3091.
Laboratory exercises and demonstrations applying
the principles studied in FISI 3091.
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