SIUE Web Search Department of Physics Welcome to the Physics Department at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
Classical physics includes mechanics, heat, sound, electricity, magnetism, and light.
The Department offers three undergraduate degree programs and one graduate degree program in Physics, as well as a wide range of courses of general interest for non-majors. The Department of Physics maintains four teaching laboratories where students develop measurement and data analysis skills. The use of computers for data collection is emphasized in many of the experiments in the introductory laboratories. At the junior level, the department offers lab based courses in optics and electronics. Our intermediate lab introduces students to computer data acqusition programming and computational modeling.