2011–2012 UNIVERSITY CATALOG - Florida Institute of Technology

PHYSICS
PHY 1001 PHYSICS 1 (4 credits). Includes vectors; mechanics of particles;
Newton’s laws of motion; work, energy and power; impulse and momentum; conservation
laws; mechanics of rigid bodies, rotation, equilibrium; fluids, heat and thermodynamics;
and periodic motion. Prerequisites: MTH 1001. Corequisites: MTH 1002.
PHY 1050 PHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE SEMINAR (1 credit). Introduces
some of the major contemporary problems and research areas in physics and space
sciences.
PHY 1091 NANOSCIENCE/NANOTECHNOLOGY LAB (1 credit). Introduces
science/engineering freshmen interested in careers in nanoscience research/nanotechnology
to techniques of nanomaterial fabrication by thin film deposition and chemical
synthesis, and sample characterization techniques like atomic force and scanning
tunneling microscopes. (Requirement: Freshman status or instructor approval.)
Prerequisites: CHM 1101.
PHY 1999 PHYSICAL CONCEPTS FOR CONSTRUCTION (4 credits).
Presents the basic concepts of physics as an essential foundation for understanding
technical ideas such as statics, structures, materials, and electrical and mechanical
systems. Provides a basis in physical science required for field work in the construction
industry. Prerequisites: MTH 1001.
PHY 2002 PHYSICS 2 (4 credits). Includes electricity and magnetism, Coulomb’s
law, electric fields, potential capacitance, resistance, DC circuits, magnetic fields,
fields due to currents, induction, magnetic properties; and wave motion, vibration and
sound, interference and diffraction. Prerequisites: PHY 1001.
PHY 2003 MODERN PHYSICS (3 credits). Includes quantum mechanics of
atoms, molecules, nuclei, solids and fundamental particles. Planck and de Broglie’s
laws, the Bohr model of hydrogen, elementary examples of Schroedinger’s equation,
relativity, elementary particles and symmetry, quantum electrodynamics and chromodynamics.
Prerequisites: MTH 2001 or MTH 2201, PHY 2002.
PHY 2091 PHYSICS LAB 1 (1 credit). Experiments to elucidate concepts and
relationships presented in PHY 1001, to develop understanding of the inductive
approach and the significance of a physical measurement, and to provide some practice
in experimental techniques and methods. Corequisites: PHY 1001 or PHY 1999.
PHY 2092 PHYSICS LAB 2 (1 credit). Continues PHY 2091. Includes experiments
pertaining to PHY 2002. Prerequisites: PHY 2091. Corequisites: PHY 2002.
PHY 3011 PHYSICAL MECHANICS (4 credits). Fundamental principles of
mechanics and applications in physics. Includes Newton’s Laws, equations of motion,
types of forces, conservation laws, potential functions, Euler and Lagrange equations
and Hamilton’s Principle. Prerequisites: MTH 2001, MTH 2201, PHY 2002.
PHY 3035 QUANTUM MECHANICS (4 credits). Schrodinger equation, the
uncertainty principle, one-dimensional potentials, harmonic oscillator, operator
methods, tunneling, angular momentum and spin. Discusses three-dimensional problems,
such as one-electron atom and N-particle systems. Introduces approximation
techniques, including perturbation theory. Prerequisites: MTH 2201, PHY 2003.
PHY 3060 THERMODYNAMICS, KINETIC THEORY AND STATISTICAL
MECHANICS (4 credits). Includes temperature, heat and heat engines, work,
internal energy, entropy, laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic potentials, equations
of state, phase changes, viscosity, thermal conductivity, diffusion, Boltzmann, Fermi-
Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics and partition functions. Prerequisites: PHY 2003.
PHY 3152 ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES (4 credits).
Includes modern electronic measurement and data collection methods, circuit
analysis, integrated and digital circuits, noise reduction techniques, signal conditioning
in experimental physics and computer interfacing. Includes a laboratory
section considering the design, construction and testing of analog and digital circuits.
Prerequisites: PHY 2002.
PHY 3440 ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY (3 credits). Includes geometry of
static electric and magnetic fields, electric charges and currents, calculating electric
and magnetic fields from potentials, static electric and magnetic fields inside matter,
Faraday’s Law of Induction and Maxwell’s Equations, and propagation and radiation of
electromagnetic waves. Prerequisites: MTH 2001, PHY 2002.
PHY 3901 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN PHYSICS (1 credit). Individual
research directed by a faculty member. May not be used in place of any named courses
in the major program. Requires the preparation and presentation of a report on the
research. May be repeated for a maximum of four credits. (Requirements: GPA of
3.0 or higher, sophomore or higher standing, and instructor and department head
approval.)
PHY 4020 OPTICS (3 credits). Applications to physics, space sciences and
engineering. Includes geometrical optics (briefly), physical optics including Fraunhofer
and Fresnel diffraction; interactions with dielectric materials; Fresnel equations; and
applications including lasers, holography, polarization and nonlinear optics materials.
(Requirement: Instructor approval or prerequisite course.) Prerequisites: MTH 2201,
PHY 2002.
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PHY 4021 EXPERIMENTS IN OPTICS (1 credit). Experiments include basic
optical systems, interference and diffraction. Studies interferometers, spectrometers,
lasers and detectors. Enrollment limited to physics and space sciences majors, and on
a space-available basis to electrical engineering majors with an emphasis in electrooptics.
Corequisites: PHY 4020.
PHY 4030 INTRODUCTION TO SUBATOMIC PHYSICS (3 credits).
Introduces elementary particles, fundamental forces, nuclear structure and reactions.
Includes classification and properties of particles (the Standard Model) and nuclei,
particle interactions, nuclear models, nuclear decays, radiation and particle detection.
Prerequisites: PHY 3035.
PHY 4033 INTRODUCTION TO SOLID STATE PHYSICS (3 credits).
Includes crystal structure, crystal diffraction and the reciprocal lattice, crystal binding;
lattice vibrations, phonons, thermal properties of insulators; free electron Fermi gas,
energy bands in metals; and Fermi surfaces. Prerequisites: PHY 3035, PHY 3060.
PHY 4071 SENIOR LAB (2 credits). Experiments in optics, and atomic nuclear
and solid state physics. (Requirement: Senior standing in physics or space sciences.)
PHY 4200 SENIOR SEMINAR 1 (1 credit). Reports and discussions on selected
topics in contemporary experimental and theoretical physics and space sciences.
(Requirement: Student must be within three semesters of graduation.) (Q)
PHY 4201 SPECIAL TOPICS IN PHYSICS (3 credits). Topics announced prior
to each course offering. (Requirement: Department head approval.)
PHY 4210 SENIOR SEMINAR 2 (1 credit). Reports and discussions on
selected topics in contemporary experimental and theoretical physics and space
sciences. (Requirement: Student must be within three semesters of graduation.) (Q)
Prerequisites: PHY 4200.
PHY 4301 INDEPENDENT STUDIES (1-3 credits). Individual study of specific
problems in physics. (Requirement: Department head approval.)
PHY 4901 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH (3 credits). Individual research
directed by a faculty member. (Requirement: Department head approval.)
PHY 4902 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH (3 credits). Individual research
directed by a faculty member. (Requirement: Department head approval.)
PHY 5015 ANALYTICAL MECHANICS 1 (3 credits). A general treatment
of dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, rotational dynamics, potential theory;
Hamilton’s principle and principle of least action, Lagrange’s equations; and applications.
Prerequisites: PHY 3011.
PHY 5017 ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY 1 (3 credits). Introduces electrostatics,
boundary-value problems in electrostatics, multipoles, electrostatics and
macroscopic media, dielectrics, magnetostatics, Faraday’s law, Maxwell equations,
plane electromagnetic waves and wave propagation.
PHY 5018 ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY 2 (3 credits). Continues PHY 5017.
Includes radiating systems, multipole fields and radiation, scattering and diffraction,
special theory of relativity, dynamics of relativistic particles and electromagnetic fields,
scattering of charged particles, Cherenkov radiation, radiation by moving charges,
Bremsstrahlung and radiation damping. Prerequisites: PHY 5017.
PHY 5020 OPTICS (3 credits). Applications to physics, space sciences and engineering.
Includes geometrical optics (briefly), physical optics, including Fraunhofer
and Fresnel diffraction; interactions with dielectric materials; Fresnel equations; and
applications including lasers, holography, polarization and nonlinear optics materials.
Additional graduate-level projects will be assigned including computer ray tracing and
computer lens design.
PHY 5030 QUANTUM MECHANICS 1 (3 credits). Schroedinger equation,
discrete and continuous eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, collision theory, matrix
mechanics, angular momentum perturbation and other approximation methods,
identical particles and spin, semiclassical theory of radiation, atomic structure.
Prerequisites: MTH 5201, MTH 5202, PHY 3035.
PHY 5031 QUANTUM MECHANICS 2 (3 credits). Schroedinger equation,
discrete and continuous eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, collision theory, matrix
mechanics, angular momentum perturbation and other approximation methods,
identical particles and spin, semiclassical theory of radiation, atomic structure.
Prerequisites: PHY 5030.
PHY 5035 SOLID STATE PHYSICS 1 (3 credits). Includes crystal structure,
crystal diffraction and the reciprocal lattice, crystal binding, lattice vibrations,
phonons, Brillouin zones, thermal properties of insulators, free electron Fermi gas,
energy bands in metals and Fermi surfaces. Prerequisites: PHY 3035, PHY 3060.
PHY 5036 SOLID STATE PHYSICS 2 (3 credits). Continues PHY 5035. Includes
semiconductors, plasmons, optical properties of solids, dielectrics, magnetism, defects
and superconductivity. Prerequisites: PHY 5035.
PHY 5045 INTRODUCTION TO ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS
(3 credits). The fundamental laws and principles that govern the behavior and
structure of matter on the subatomic scale. Definition and classification of elementary
particles and fundamental forces; properties of elementary particles and their
experimentally observable behavior; symmetries and invariance principles; Feynman
diagrams; interaction of particles with bulk matter. Prerequisites: PHY 4030.