Physics - for Undergraduate and Graduate Students |
| 029:103 Reading in Physics | arr. |
| 029:105 Special Topics in Physics | arr. |
| 029:115 Intermediate Mechanics | 3 s.h. |
| Newtonian mechanics; noninertial reference systems; central forces, celestial mechanics; rigid body motion; Lagrangian, Hamiltonian equations of motion; small oscillations. Prerequisites: 22M:026, and 029:011 or 029:027 or 029:081. | |
| 029:118 Statistical Physics | 3 s.h. |
| Integrated introduction to subjects of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, kinetic theory; emphasis on applications. Prerequisites: 029:030 or 029:083, and 029:115. | |
| 029:128 Electronics | 4 s.h. |
| Design and construction of small circuits; use of measurement instruments--oscilloscope, multimeter, function generator; circuits, including transistors, operational amplifiers, digital, analog-to-digital conversion; laboratory course for majors in UI science departments. Prerequisite: 029:012 or 029:028 or 029:082. | |
| 029:129 Electricity and Magnetism I | 3 s.h. |
| Electrostatics, magnetic fields, introduction to Maxwell's equations. Prerequisites: 22M:028 or 22M:048, and 029:012 or 029:028 or 029:082. | |
| 029:130 Electricity and Magnetism II | 3 s.h. |
| Continuation of 029:129; magnetism, electromagnetic waves, A.C. circuits, applications of Maxwell's equations to wave guides, antennas, optics, plasma physics, other topics. Prerequisite: 029:129. | |
| 029:132 Intermediate Laboratory | 3 s.h. |
| Electricity; electronics; magnetism; optics; atomic, nuclear, solid state physics; techniques in data analysis, including error analysis. Prerequisites: 029:028 or 029:082, and 029:029 or 029:083. Corequisite: 029:129. | |
| 029:133 Advanced Laboratory | 3 s.h. |
| Topics in electricity; electronics; magnetism; atomic, nuclear, plasma, solid state physics; techniques in data analysis, including error analysis. | |
| 029:140 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics I | 3 s.h. |
| Superposition principle, Stern-Gerlach experiment, linear operators, measurement theory, time evolution, angular momentum, wave mechanics in one dimension, one-dimensional harmonic oscillator, two body problems with central forces, the hydrogen atom. Prerequisites: 029:030 or 029:083; 029:115; and 22M:027 and 22M:028, or 22M:047 and 22M:048. | |
| 029:141 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics II | 3 s.h. |
| Perturbation theory, variational methods, WKB approximation, scattering, Helium atom, periodic table, atomic spectroscopy, transition rates, other selected applications. Prerequisite: 029:140. | |
| 029:171 Mathematical Methods of Physics I | 3 s.h. |
| Functions of complex variables, integration methods, linear vector spaces, tensors, matrix algebra. Prerequisite: 22M:028, or 22M:047 and 22M:048. | |
| 029:172 Mathematical Methods of Physics II | 3 s.h. |
| Continuation of 029:171; Hilbert space, special functions, Fourier transform and expansions in orthogonal polynomials, differential equations, Green's functions. Prerequisite: 029:171. | |
| 029:180 Introductory Optics | 3 s.h. |
| Geometrical and physical optics; interference; diffraction; polarization; microscopic origins of macroscopic optical properties of matter; optical activity; electro-optical, magneto-optical, acousto-optical phenomena; spontaneous Brillioun, Raman, Rayleigh scattering. Prerequisite: 029:130 or equivalent. Same as 055:177. | |
| 029:182 Electro-Optics | 3 s.h. |
| Propagation, nonlinear effects in bounded structures; optical birefringence; dielectric waveguides, fibers; electro-optic, acousto-optic modulation; optical detection, noise. Prerequisite: 029:130 or equivalent. Same as 055:179. | |
| 029:184 Optical Signal Processing | 3 s.h. |
| Linear optics from perspective of Fourier analysis; impulse response, convolution, transfer functions, coherence, interference, diffraction, image formation, Gaussian beam propagation, holography, sampling theory, optical information and signal processing. Prerequisite: 029:130 or equivalent. Same as 055:178. | |
| 029:192 Elementary Particles and Nuclear Physics | 3 s.h. |
| Accelerators, particle detectors, passage of radiation through matter; nuclear structure, nuclear reactions; quark model of hadrons; strong, electromagnetic, weak interactions of elementary particles; gauge theories, intermediate vector bosons; unification of electromagnetic and weak interactions. Prerequisite: 029:140. | |
| 029:193 Introductory Solid State Physics | 3 s.h. |
| Phenomena associated with solid state; classification of solids and crystal structures, electronic and vibrational properties in solids; thermal, optical, magnetic, dielectric properties of solids. Prerequisites: 029:140; and 22M:028, or 22M:047 and 22M:048. Same as 055:173. | |
| 029:194 Plasma Physics I | 3 s.h. |
| Physics of ionized gases, including orbit theory, guiding center motion, adiabatic invariants, ionization balance description of plasmas by fluid variables and distribution functions; linearized wave motions, instabilities; magnetohydrodynamics. Prerequisite: 029:130. | |
| 029:195 Plasma Physics II | 3 s.h. |
| Continuation of 029:194; linear, nonlinear solutions of the Vlasov equation, kinetic theory of plasmas, including Landau damping and velocity space instabilities. Prerequisite: 029:194. | |
| 029:196 Computational Physics | 3 s.h. |
| Introduction to contemporary use of computers by physicists; topics such as numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations in classical mechanics, boundary value problems in electricity and magnetism, eigenvalue problems in quantum mechanics, Monte Carlo simulations in statistical mechanics, methods of data analysis. Prerequisites: 029:115, 029:129, and 029:140. | |
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