Courses Descriptions from the University Calendar Courses numbered 5XX and 6XX are available exclusively to graduate students. Those numbered 4XX are senior undergraduate courses, some of which are available for credit to graduate students.
All courses are one term in length.
In addition to course requirements which are printed in the Calendar, graduate students have colloquium and seminar obligations. All graduate students are expected to attend the weekly colloquia and to participate in seminars. Physics 524 Classical Electrodynamics II Wave guides, radiating systems, special relativity, dynamics of relativistic particles and electromagnetic fields, radiation by moving charges, multiple fields. Additional special topics will be discussed. Physics 530 Statistical Mechanics Fundamentals of classical and quantum statistical mechanics, with selected applications.