Open to seniors nearing completion of a physics major. This course seeks to integrate knowledge of wide-ranging topics in engineering physics in order to solve design problems. Major emphasis is placed on a group-oriented term project which must successfully be completed from concept through analysis to layout and report. A continuation of PHY 330 . Mechanics of a rigid body, generalized coordinates, the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian functions, relative motion.
Laboratory meets once per week for three hours.
An intermediate course dealing with fundamentals of geometrical and physical optics. Reflection, refraction, lenses and optical instruments, spectroscopes and spectra, interference, diffraction and polarization. A laboratory course providing experimental studies in geometrical, physical and quantum optics. Three hours of laboratory per week. A brief review of electrostatics and magnetostatics.