Course includes laboratory. Offered in 1999-2000 and alternate years. The application of mathematics to physical systems. Topics studied are techniques of integration, vector calculus, Fourier analysis, complex algebra, and some matrix methods. Intermediate Mechanics Newtonian mechanics applied to the motion of particles and systems, conservation laws, motion of rigid bodies, and central force problems.
Course includes laboratory.
I A mathematical study of the laws of thermodynamics, equilibria, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics, and introductory quantum and statistical mechanics. Sufficient computer programming is introduced in the laboratory to allow treatment and interpretation of laboratory data. Course includes laboratory. Cross-listed with Chemistry 3307. 3309 Topics in Quantum Mechanics Intensive study of one or two areas of contemporary physics such as atomic physics, elementary particle physics, molecular physics, nuclear physics, quantum statistical mechanics, and solid state physics.