Undergraduate Catalogue - UPRM

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
FISI 3151-3152. MODERN COLLEGE
PHYSICS. Three credit hours per semester. Two
hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per
week each semester. FISI 3151: Prerequisite:
MATE 3021, Corequisite: MATE 3031 or MATE
3144 or MATE 3183. FISI 3152: Prerequisite:
FISI 3151 and MATE 3022 or MATE 3031 or
MATE 3144 or MATE 3183.
Mechanics, heat, sound, electricity, magnetism, and
optics. Differential and integral calculus will be
used as much as possible.
FISI 3153-3154. MODERN COLLEGE PHYSICS
LABORATORY. One credit hour per semester.
One two-hour laboratory per week each semester.
Co-requisite: FISI 3151-3152.
This course is to supplement FISI 3151-3152.
FISI 3161. GENERAL PHYSICS I. Four credit
hours. Four hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite:
MATE 3031 or MATE 3183.
Principles of mechanics, acoustics, and
thermodynamics, with application to classical and
modern physics.
FISI 3162. GENERAL PHYSICS II. Four credit
hours. Four hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: FISI 3161 or FISI 3171.
Principles of electricity, magnetism, and optics,
with application to classical and modern physics.
FISI 3163. LABORATORY OF GENERAL
PHYSICS I. One credit hour. One two-hour
laboratory per week. Co-requisite: FISI 3161 or
FISI 3171.
Experiments in mechanics, waves, and
thermodynamics to complement FISI 3161.
FISI 3164. LABORATORY OF GENERAL
PHYSICS II. One credit hour. One two-hour
laboratory per week. Prerequisite: FISI 3163 or
FISI 3173. Co-requisite: FISI 3162 or FISI 3172.
Experiments in electricity, magnetism, and optics to
complement FISI 3162.
FISI 3171. PHYSICS I. Four credit hours. Four
hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite: MATE
3031 or MATE 3183 or MATE 3144.
Principles of mechanics, waves, and
thermodynamics for engineering and physical
sciences.
FISI 3172. PHYSICS II. Four credit hours. Four
hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite: FISI 3171
or FISI 3161.
Principles of electricity, magnetism, optics, and
modern physics for engineering and the physical
sciences.
FISI 3173. PHYSICS LABORATORY I. One
credit hour. A two-hour laboratory per week. Corequisite:
FISI 3171 or FISI 3161.
Experiments in mechanics, waves, and optics to
complement the PHYSICS I course.
FISI 3174. PHYSICS LABORATORY II. One
credit hour. A two-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: FISI 3173 or FISI 3163. Co-requisite:
FISI 3172 or FISI 3162.
Experiments in electricity, magnetism, and modern
physics to complement the PHYSICS II course.
FISI 4001-4002. SEMINAR. One credit hour per
semester. Two hours of lecture per week each
semester.
Discussion and reports of special topics in Physics.
FISI 4007. PHOTOGRAPHY. Three credit hours.
Two hours of lecture and one three-hour laboratory
per week. Prerequisite: Authorization of the
Director of the Department.
Study of lens systems, basic photochemistry,
composition, light and color balance; laboratory
practices and techniques of the darkroom;
appropriate use of natural and artificial light.
FISI 4017. PHYSICAL OPTICS. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: FISI 3162 or FISI 3172.
Interference, diffraction and polarization
phenomena; wave surfaces, resolving power of
optical instruments, magneto-optical phenomena.
FISI 4046. WAVE MECHANICS. Three credit
hours. Three lectures per week. Prerequisites:
FISI 4052 and MATE 4009, or authorization of the
Director of the Department.
An introduction to wave mechanics: the study of
the Shroedinger equation, and its application to the
solution of problems in one and three dimensions;
elementary techniques of perturbation theory.
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