Offered on an independent contract basis. Experiments in acoustics, optics, electrical measurement, spectroscopy, nuclear physics, and gravitation. Emphasis on techniques of measurement. Hours Advanced course in analytic mechanics, including analysis of systems of forces, acceleration, momentum, and energy. Emphasis on dynamics, including space and orbital mechanics.
Full use is made of differential equations and vector analysis wherever appropriate.
Offered in alternate years. Hours Advanced course in electricity and magnetism, including electrostatics, magnetostatics, magnetic induction, and electromagnetic waves. Basic laws of Gauss, Ampere, Faraday, and Maxwell in their differential form. Vector analysis and differential equations are used throughout. Emphasis on solving boundary value problems, such as those appropriate to fields at interfaces between two media.