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Undergraduate Bulletin of Information 2001-2002COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESPHCS 3172. PHYSICS II. Four credit hours.Four hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite:PHCS 3171 or PHCS 3161.Principles of electricity, magnetism, optics, andmodern physics for engineering and the physicalsciences.PHCS 3173. PHYSICS LABORATORY I. Onecredit hour. A two-hour laboratory per week. Corequisite:PHCS 3171 or PHCS 3161.Experiments in mechanics, waves, and optics tocomplement the PHYSICS I course.PHCS 3174. PHYSICS LABORATORY II.One credit hour. A two-hour laboratory perweek. Prerequisite: PHCS 3173 or PHCS 3163.Co-requisite: PHCS 3172 or PHCS 3162.Experiments in electricity, magnetism, andmodern physics to complement the PHYSICS IIcourse.PHCS 4001-4002. SEMINAR. One credit hourper semester. Two hours of lecture per weekeach semester.Discussion and reports of special topics inPhysics.PHCS 4007. PHOTOGRAPHY. Three credithours. Two hours of lecture and one three-hourlaboratory per week. Prerequisite: Consent ofthe Director of the Department.Study of lens systems, basic photochemistry,composition, light and color balance; laboratorypractices and techniques of the darkroom;appropriate use of natural and artificial light.PHCS 4017. PHYSICAL OPTICS. Three credithours. Three hours of lecture per week.Prerequisite: PHCS 3162 or PHCS 3172.Interference, diffraction and polarizationphenomena; wave surfaces, resolving power ofoptical instruments, magneto-optical phenomena.PHCS 4046. WAVE MECHANICS. Threecredit hours. Three lectures per week.Prerequisites: PHCS 4052 and MATH 4009, orconsent of the Director of the Department.An introduction to wave mechanics: the study ofthe Shroedinger equation, and its application tothe solution of problems in one and threedimensions; elementary techniques ofperturbation theory.PHCS 4049. ELECTRONICS. Three credithours. Two lectures and one three-hourlaboratory per week. Prerequisites: (PHCS 3164or PHCS 3174 or PHCS 3154) and (PHCS 3162or PHCS 3172 or PHCS 3152).Discussion of AC circuits theory, vacuum tubes,transistors, power supplies, amplifiers,oscillations, servo systems, operationalamplifiers, electronic switching and otherelectronic circuits. Laboratory exercises aredesigned so that students develop a practicalknowledge of electronic circuits.PHCS 4051. INTERMEDIATE MECHANICS.Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture perweek. Prerequisite: PHCS 3162 or PHCS 3172and MATH 3063 or MATH 3185.A study of kinematics, dynamics, gravitation,and motion of rigid bodies; elasticity,hydrostatics and hydrodynamics; vibration andwave motion.PHCS 4052. DYNAMICS. Three credit hours.Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite:PHCS 4051.Dynamics of particles and rigid bodies.Lagrange and Hamilton´s equations of motionand related matters.PHCS 4057. THERMAL PHYSICS. Threecredit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.Prerequisite: PHCS 3162 or PHCS 3172 orPHCS 3012 and MATH 3063 o MATH 3185.A study of the three laws of thermodynamics,equations of state, phase transitions, andthermodynamics potentials, with an introductionof classical and quantum statistics andapplications of the distribution functions ofBoltzman, Bose-Einstein, and Fermi-Dirac.PHCS 4068. ELECTROMAGNETISM. Threecredit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.Prerequisite: (PHCS 3162 or PHCS 3172) and(MATH 3063 or MATH 3185).206
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Undergraduate Bulletin of Information 2001-2002An introductory study of electric theory,electrostatics, electric and magnetic field, theoryof linear circuits, and electromagnetic radiation.PHCS 4076. INTERMEDIATELABORATORY I. Two credit hours. Twothree-hour laboratories per week. Prerequisite:PHCS 3164 or PHCS 3174 or PHCS 4049.Includes intermediate laboratory experiments inmechanics, electricity, magnetism, and modernphysics, stressing the importance of precisionmeasurements and appropriate experimentaltechniques.PHCS 4077. INTERMEDIATELABORATORY II. Two credit hours. Twothree-hour laboratories per week. Prerequisite:PHCS 3164 or PHCS 3174 or PHCS 4049.Includes intermediate laboratory experiments inwave phenomena, solid state, atomic, nuclear,and molecular physics. The student will acquiregeneral research laboratory techniques inspectroscopy, electric and magneticmeasurements, vacuum systems, and lowtemperatures.PHCS 4105. MODERN PHYSICS. Threecredit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.Prerequisite: PHCS 3162 or PHCS 3172.A study of topics of twentieth century physics,including Relativity theory, Radiation theory,atomic structure of hydrogen like atoms,introduction to Schroedinger's equation,radioactive and selected topics in nuclear andsolid state physics.PHCS 4125. COMPUTERS IN PHYSICS.Three credit hours. Two hours of lecture andone three-hour laboratory per week.Prerequisite: GEEG 3025 or MATH 3010 orCOMP 3010 or consent of the Director of theDepartment.Introduction to computer techniques and theirapplications to physics.PHCS 4135. APPLIED OPTICS. Four credithours. Three hours of lecture and one two-hourlaboratory per week. Prerequisite: PHCS 4017.Current topics in applied optics including:radiometry and photometry, light detectors,optical fibers and wave guides, Fourier opticsand optical image processing, holography,electro-optics, and integrated optics.PHCS 4996. COOP PRACTICE. Three to sixcredit hours. Prerequisite: Consent of theDirector of the Department.Practical experience in physics in cooperationwith private industry or government to be jointlysupervised by the academic department, theCOOP Program Coordinator, and an officialfrom the cooperating organization.PHCS 4997. SPECIAL PROBLEMS INPHYSICS. One to three credit hours.Prerequisite: Consent of the Director of theDepartment.Short research problems --assigned or selected--,subject to approval by the instructor; a writtenreport is required.PHCS 4999. UNDERGRADUATERESEARCH. One to three credit hours.Prerequisite: Consent of the Head of theDepartment.A research project in either basic or appliedphysics to be supervised by a member of theDepartment.ADVANCED UNDERGRADUATEAND GRADUATE COURSESPHCS 5037-5025. INTRODUCTION TOSOLID STATE PHYSICS. Three credit hoursper semester. Three hours of lecture per weekeach semester.An introduction to X-ray diffraction, crystalstructures, elastic constant of crystals, latticeenergy and vibrations; thermal properties ofsolids, dielectric properties, ferroelectric crystals;diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism,antiferromagnetism; free electron model ofmetals, superconductivity, excitons,photoconductivity and luminescense.PHCS 5047. LASER PHYSICS. Three credithours. Three hours of lecture per week.Prerequisites: PHCS 4105 and PHCS 4068.Semiclassical theory of laser operation. Analysisof laser light characteristics, interaction ofradiation with matter, optical resonators,207
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