Laboratory experiments reinforce or extend the work of the lecture portion of the course. Emphasis is on mechanics. Topics treated include electricity and magnetism, circuits, electromagnetic oscillations and waves, physical optics and geometrical optics. This second semester of a one-year sequence in laboratory work emphasizes experimental techniques, procedures and report writing. Laboratory experiments reinforce or extend the work of the lecture portion of the course.
Emphasis is on electrical measurements, waves, optics and modern physics.
An introductory course of the modern branch of physics covering the special theory of relativity, the basic phenomenology of atomic and nuclear physics and the basic concepts of quantum mechanics. Topics covered include vector analysis, coordinate systems, matrices and determinants, infinite series and infinite products, and complex analysis. Topics include calculus of variations, special functions, integral transforms, linear vector space and tensor analysis. A course in mechanics at the intermediate level. Topics include the Lagrange and Hamilton formulations, the two body problem, rigid body motion and small oscillations.