Applied Physics BS Requirements
Optics


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Freshman--Fall Freshman--Spring
Course Number Course Title
Semester Hours
Course Number Course Title
Semester Hours
29:27 Physics I
4
29:28 Physics II
4
22M:25 Calculus I
4
22M:26 Calculus II
4
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 


Sophomore--Fall Sophomore--Spring
Course Number Course Title
Semester Hours
Course Number Course Title
Semester Hours
29:29 Physics III
4
29:30 Physics IV
4
22M:27 Introduction to Linear Algebra
3
29:115 Intermediate Mechanics
3
   
 
22M:28 Calculus III
3
   
 
   
 
   
 
     


Junior--Fall Junior--Spring
Course Number Course Title
Semester Hours
Course Number Course Title
Semester Hours
29:129 Electricity and Magnetism
3
29:128 Electronics
3
29:140 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics I
3
29:180 Electro Foundation of Optics
3
   
 
29:130 Electricity and Magnetism
3
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 


Senior--Fall Senior--Spring
Course Number Course Title
Semester Hours
Course Number Course Title
Semester Hours
29:118 Statistical Physics
3
  Optics Elective*
 
29:132 Intermediate Laboratory
3
   
 
  Optics Elective*
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 


Coop - Choose any one of the following:

Optics Electives:

*Students must take 2 of: 29:174, 29:182, 29:184, 29:193
All requirements of Physics BS required except: 29:141.
GEs Not Satisfied By Physics Major:
Course Name Semester Hours Course Name Semester Hours
Rhetoric 10:____ 3-4 sh
10:____ 4 sh
Humanities 3 sh
Foreign Lang
     Last course in sequence
  Social Science 3 sh
Interp of Lit 8G:1 3 sh Distributed Ed 3 sh**
Hist Perspect 3 sh Distributed Ed 3 sh**
       
**6 hours with a minimum of 3 hours chosen from each of two of these: Cultural Diversity, Fine Arts, Foreign Civilization and Culture, Historical Perspectives, Humanities, PE, Social Science

Physics and Mathematics Electives

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